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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - May 18, 2010
Europe's Lack Of Discipline
by George Will
WASHINGTON - When Chancellor Angela Merkel decided that
Germany would pay part of Greece's bills, voters punished
her party in elections in Germany's most populous state,
North Rhine-Westphalia. How appropriate.
The 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years'
War, ratified Europe's emerging system of nation-states.
Since the end of the Thirty-One Years' War (1914-1945),
European elites have worked at neutering Europe's national-
ities. Greece's debt crisis reveals this project's intract-
able contradictions, and the fragility of Western Europe's
postwar social model -- omniprovident welfare states lack-
ing limiting principles.
Greece represents a perverse aspiration -- a society with
(in the words of Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan)
"more takers than makers," more people taking benefits
from government than there are people making goods and
services that produce the social surplus that funds govern-
ment. By socializing the consequences of Greece's misgovern-
ment, Europe has become the world's leading producer of
a toxic product -- moral hazard. The dishonesty and
indiscipline of a nation with 2.6 percent of the eurozone's
economic product have moved nations with the other 97.4
percent -- and the United States and the International
Monetary Fund -- to say, essentially: The consequences of
such vices cannot be quarantined, so we are all hostages
to one another and hence no nation will be allowed to sink
beneath the weight of its recklessness.
Recklessness will proliferate.
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"The coining of money," said William Blackstone more than
two centuries ago, "is in all states the act of the
sovereign power."
But the EU is neither a state nor sovereign enough to
enforce its rules: No eurozone nation is complying with
the EU requirement that deficits not exceed 3 percent of
GDP.
The EU has a flag no one salutes, an anthem no one sings,
a president no one can name, a parliament (in Strasbourg)
no one other than its members wants to have power (which
must subtract from the powers of national legislatures),
a capital (Brussels) of coagulated bureaucracy no one
admires or controls, a currency that presupposes what
neither does nor should nor soon will exist (a European
central government), and rules of fiscal behavior that no
member has been penalized for ignoring. The euro currency
both presupposes and promotes a fiction -- that "Europe"
has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans,
a political rather than a merely geographic expression.
The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002,
proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills
of particular nations, featuring pictures of national
heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures
celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro,
16 nations have said goodbye to all that. The bills depict
nonexistent windows, gateways and bridges. They are from...
nowhere, which is what "utopia" means.
Since European integration began in 1951 with creation of
the European Coal and Steel Community, the question has
been: Will there be a Europe of states or a state of
Europe? The euro is part of the attempt to create the
latter, a Leviathan constructed from the surrendered
sovereignties of Europe's nations.
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If money represents, as Emerson said, the prose of life,
the euro reflects a determination to make European life
prosaic. It is an attempt to erase nationalities and
subsume politics in economics in order to escape from
European history. The euro pleases dispirited people for
whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but
the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural
despair.
It also presupposes something else nonexistent. The word
"democracy" incorporates the Greek demos -- people. As the
recent rampages of Greece's demos, and the reciprocated
disdain of Germany's demos, demonstrate, Europe remains a
continent of distinct and unaffectionate peoples. There is
no "European people" united by common mores. Henry James
wrote to William Dean Howells: "Man isn't at all one,
after all -- it takes so much of him to be American, to
be French, etc." Still true; still perilous to ignore.
It is said that, two decades after the end of Europe's East-
West political division, there is a North-South cultural
division. But Ireland's and, even more, Britain's debt
problems refute that distinction. Britain's debt, Europe's
worst, is the result of increasing government spending from
37 percent of GDP to 53 percent in a decade. The London
Spectator says no other European nation "has expanded its
government as quickly -- over this or any other decade in
postwar history."
The U in the EU -- the unifying thread -- is indiscipline.
Increasingly, it also is the unifying characteristic of
the USA.
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