Bruno Maçães: belief

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…How soon will the European Union disintegrate? And if so, over what issue? It won’t disintegrate. What is possible is that it will become ineffective. It will become a repetition of the Holy Roman Empire. It will be around. People will still pay tribute to it, but it won’t do anything. I think that’s a possibility, but a full-scale disintegration, I don’t think that can happen. Isn’t a boring history what we should be striving for? If the EU lives more off Chinese and Indian tourism, it grows, say, at 1.3 percent a year. It has enough austerity that budgets don’t explode. Maybe two or three countries on the periphery peel away, but lives continue. People marry and die and have children. Isn’t that a victory for Fukuyama? Or how should we think about that?…

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