中美在太平洋紧张对峙的时候，欧洲开始觉醒，其实欧洲的政治精英早就明白，如果没有一个团结统一的欧洲，未来的欧洲，在国际地缘政治舞台上面，就会是一个越来越不重要的配角。现代文明虽然发源于欧洲，但是欧洲本身是可以消亡的。面对俄国的安全和能源威胁，面对东方丝绸古国的种种经济、信息和价值观差异，欧洲该怎么办？华为是一个观察点，欧洲各国对华为的态度本质上就是对挑战的应对模式。德国的确已经开始收紧了中资收购德国企业的审查，但这还远远不够。
回过头看，英国退出欧盟真的是历史上的一个巨大遗憾。北约组织名存实亡，欧洲必须要开始为自己的防卫买单。这也是川普带给世界历史的伤害。
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Unprecedented in nature and ambitious in scope, the 2.4 trillion euros ($2.6 trillion) in total recovery spending unveiled by the EU — anchored by 750 billion euros of joint debt issuance — has already started to calm jitterymarkets and it might just restore a sense of unity to a bloc under severe strain.
With the economic pain spread unevenly across the continent, the initiative will mean a big step toward real fiscal union for the 27 member states and aims to recast the EU as a force for good rather than an irritating meddler.
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Facing its worst recession in living memory, the EU has crossed a new bridge: It will harness its collective strength to raise massive amounts of money that won’t need to be repaid by the recipient countries.
Countries in the EU still value their sovereignty and so the bloc has always evolved by dipping toes in the water, often in times of crisis, rather than diving straight in. But with the creation of the euro and handing over control of policy areas like competition and trade, bit by bit, decade by decade, governments have exchanged their powers for the sake of common power.
Leaders will begin haggling over the details when they convene on June 19 — perhaps even in person for the first time in months — and the process will likely involve its fair share of bickering as all European projects do. But that won’t detract from the radical nature of what is now on the table.
Ursula von der Leyen at the European Parliament in Brussels, on May 27.
“This is Europe’s moment,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday. “We either all go it alone, leaving countries, regions and people behind, and accepting a union of haves and have-nots, or we walk that road together.”
As the coronavirus death toll mounted in March, spreading northward from the overwhelmed care homes and hospitals of Italy and Spain, the EU had floundered, with member states set against each other in the scramble for resources to protect their own. In Italy, the opposition leader Matteo Salvinispoke openly of pulling his country out of the EU.
That, von der Leyen said at the time, was “a glimpse of the abyss.”
Wednesday’s proposals go some way to ensuring leaders don’t look back into it any time soon.The pandemic has ensured it’s happening again in a way that was unthinkable just three months ago when governments still couldn’t agree on the bl
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