Europe

Preliminaries

(*) Dedication: This three-fold ‘iconostasis’ is dedicated to an Eagle in the East: the Serbian nation and its courageous freedom fight against truly overwhelming odds.

Looking at the violent behaviour of the angry French in the streets, especially when you see it for the first time, you immediately think: there it is, the revolution! The government will not hold! France is finished. The government will fall. It doesn't matter whether they are Arab or African teenagers from the suburbs, populist yellow waistcoats, disgruntled peasants, supporters of sexual minorities or, on the contrary, supporters of the family and traditional values, nationalists, anti-fascists, anarchists, students, pensioners, cyclists, animal protectors, trade unionists, ecologists or pensioners.

For centuries, relations between peoples were dominated by the prevalence of individual interests, thus contributing to permanent tension and conflict. Later, the “social contract” has reached relations between peoples and the States in which they are located, but it took a while to reach relations between States and between the peoples of different States. It is fallacious to say that the countless sovereign States currently form an “international community”, since a community corresponds to the essential aspirations of human nature and there is a communion of values and solidarity among its members.

The first vulnerability is that the EU is not a completely unified political system. On the contrary, it is composed of 27 independent member states, each with its own interests and priorities. This can lead to gridlock in decision-making and a weakening of the EU's influence on the world stage.