In his 1981 Inaugural Address, President Ronald Reagan said something both simple and profound: “We are a nation that has a government – not the other way around.” That affirmation still drives American policy.
In Europe, however, there is no real government accountable to the people. No, just the layered, bureaucratic, and unresponsive European Union (EU) – a political and economic association of 27 member states. There, instead of a single governing authority making foreign policy, there are interests and corporate entities leading the charge on major decisions and strategic concerns. As witness, look at Airbus, a French-based company, that looks as if it is imposing its corporate advantage as a – sort of – foreign policy for the EU, and as a consequence, imposing its self-interest on myriad nations across the globe.
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