{"id":7050,"date":"2020-03-27T20:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7050"},"modified":"2021-04-18T17:17:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:17:28","slug":"coronavirus-the-european-union-unravels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/03\/27\/coronavirus-the-european-union-unravels\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: The European Union Unravels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/03\/27\/coronavirus-the-european-union-unravels\/long-queues-at-austrian-hungarian-border-due-to-coronavirus-containment-measures\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7051\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7051\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/250-eu-collapse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/250-eu-collapse.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/250-eu-collapse-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>As the coronavirus pandemic rages through Europe, the foundational pillars of the European Union are crumbling one by one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Coronavirus: The European Union Unravels<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15803\/coronavirus-european-union-unravels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | March 27, 2020<\/p>\n<p>As the coronavirus pandemic rages through Europe \u2014 where more than 250,000 people have now been diagnosed with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and 15,000 have died \u2014 the foundational pillars of the European Union are crumbling one by one.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with an existential threat, EU member states, far from joining together to confront the pandemic as a unified bloc, instinctively are returning to pursuing the national interest. After years of criticizing U.S. President Donald J. Trump for pushing an \u201cAmerica First\u201d policy, European leaders are reverting to the very nationalism they have publicly claimed to despise.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the threat posed by coronavirus came into focus, Europeans have displayed precious little of the high-minded multilateral solidarity that for decades has been sold to the rest of the world as a bedrock of European unity. The EU\u2019s unique brand of soft power, said to be a model for a post-national world order, has been shown to be an empty fiction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15803\/coronavirus-european-union-unravels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the coronavirus pandemic rages through Europe, the foundational pillars of the European Union are crumbling one by one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[129,171],"class_list":["post-7050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-crisis","tag-european-union-2","tag-geopolitics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coronavirus: The European Union Unravels - 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