COLUMN. To win the cultural and intellectual battle, Europe must staunchly defend its model, writes the economist in his column, dismantling the narrative of a 'declining' continent.
EU for the past 40 years: “yeah let’s destroy all our industry, degrade and defund welfare, and rely on external countries for our energy needs, that will surely work wonderfully!”
Was Europe energy self-sufficient before that? I know Romanian oil was a big deal circa WWII, but I don’t know how quickly it ran out, exactly, and it ended up in the eastern bloc anyway.
EU for the past 40 years: “yeah let’s destroy all our industry, degrade and defund welfare, and rely on external countries for our energy needs, that will surely work wonderfully!”
Was Europe energy self-sufficient before that? I know Romanian oil was a big deal circa WWII, but I don’t know how quickly it ran out, exactly, and it ended up in the eastern bloc anyway.
Well, we killed both nuclear and solar, that’s my main point.