No doubt this has been brought up before, but I don't come on to the political threads that often any more. The federalist Franco/German vision of the direction the EU intends to take is not always shared by other member states, Brexit having taken centre stage for so long tends to mask the in fighting taking place between the main players and lesser ranked countries who are beginning to show a certain amount of discontent with the directives that are imposed upon them.
From an article in today's Guardian. Luigi Di Maio, Italy's deputy PM told a rally in central Abruzzo region on Sunday "If today's people are leaving Africa, it's because some European countries with France taking the lead, have never stopped colonising African states" He called on the EU to sanction France for "impoverishing Africa" and for migrants to be taken to the southern French port of Marseilles instead of Italy.
As we know Italy is not the only country who have demonstrated that they will not be dictated to by Brussels, most of Eastern Europe do not follow directives that they feel are not in the interests of their country.
I wonder therefore with so many disparate points of view, how that will bode for a European army.
The raison d'etre of having a united Europe we are told was to prevent anymore wars on our continent, borne out of the rise of fascism in Germany and seeing how such an aggressive political movement ultimately manifested itself. I sometimes feel there is an irony in that the more federalism the EU strives for, the more nationalism rears its head and the ramifications of rampant nationalism tends not to bode well for a peaceful existence.
