The Brexit-effect and The Myth of the dying European Union

Honestly, as a European from a europhile country, I have never considered the fall of the EU as a result of Brexit as a likely scenario, nor have I seen it presented that way in the media.

That is because of arrogance, it is widely believed that the EU is too big to fall. People tend to attribute every positive aspect within Europe to the EU, but the EU itself is momentarily crumbling at it's seams due to problems at the bureaucratic level. Those problems can absolutely be solved but that requires utmost integrity and competence from the highest levels.

While each European nation is still getting stronger, there is no causal link that the EU itself is causing that. Attributing every positive aspect of European nations that have thrived for centuries to the EU is a fallacy that many bureaucrats have made and the electorate is becoming aware of that. Switzerland for example has seen the biggest economic growth and the strongest per-capita position within Europe, but is no member of the EU. The rest of the EU nations has seen a decline in the rate of economic growth, but there is no way to prove how much a country would've economically grown both with and without EU membership.

If you look at the current economy growth and that of the past decade, the EU now has no room to be arrogant towards the Brexit situation. It is a very serious situation and doesn't require pointing fingers at the UK, they have made their decision. It requires self reflection towards the inefficiencies and bureaucracy that has caused this steady decline and rise in scepticism. There is no time to laugh at how much the UK economy will tank with this reckless action when the EU economic growth has been on a decline for a decade. Just because the EU is currently the single biggest economic block doesn't mean it will stay that way with systematic bureaucratic mismanagement covered by increasing tax revenue.

People can attack the EU because they are making it easy to attack themselves by the virtue of their own representatives, they don't reflect the core of most EU economies. Where are the experienced business owners and technology experts? A base of people with backgrounds almost exclusively in the humanities cannot possibly effectively govern a continent whose economy is almost entirely driven by technology and the natural sciences. Compare that to China where a great fraction of the people have STEM backgrounds that represent modern reality and you can see the massive difference in economic growth and technology-driven policies. There's way too many people without any competencies other than knowing the right people within the EU apparatus right now, and they are very far removed from the reality of most people and that of a modern economy.

The focus should be on: how can we improve the EU to be more just, efficient and represent the member countries better? One step would be not to appoint completely corrupt and scandal ridden people like Ursula von der Leyen (academic fraud, pro-censorship, failed as defence minister, military kickbacks corruption) and Christine Lagarde (found guilty over a $500m corruption scandal at the IMF, avoided a 1 year prison sentence due to being a public figure). If the EU continues to be arrogant and continues to appoint by virtue of nepotism they will never be too big to fall.

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