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Brexit could have been a simple divorce between the UK and Europe, but the mounting tension between the British Parliament and the European Union is about to turn this separation into a much more deeply profound event. This is because Brexit won\u2019t just have major geopolitical ramifications in modern history. In fact, after France\u2019s vote in 2005 against the European Constitution that was nevertheless supported on the sly and adopted surreptitiously by Nicolas Sarkozy, and after Greece\u2019s general elections in 2015 that brought Al\u00e9xis Ts\u00edpras back to power who hastily got to work the next day on adopting measures that were diametrically opposed to the commitments made during the electoral campaign, the catastrophe of the Brexit process (whether you\u2019re for it or against it) shows that our Western democratic system is now in a logjam.<\/p>\n
Britain\u2019s situation aside, this disaffection is contaminating all western democratic institutions, the media, the decision-makers: in short, this absolute defiance against those we call elites and experts is severe and will be long-lasting. Britain\u2019s tragicomedy aside, all the traditional parties are now seen as corrupt, concerned only with their own interests, and it\u2019s not the organisation of a second referendum on Brexit (whatever the outcome might be) that will cleanse this very pessimistic vision of the country\u2019s leaders \u2013 of those \u201cat the top\u201d \u2013 that an increasing portion of their constituents are taking on. After the beginning of the end of a European democracy led mainly by two alternating parties, sparked in France by the election of Emmanuel Macron (who was simply the side effect of it), after Italy fell into the demagogic unknown, after Germany itself looked on with alarm at the demise of the traditional moderate parties, an ever-increasing majority of European citizens no longer recognise themselves, not just in the traditional parties \u2013 that\u2019s obvious \u2013 but they no longer believe at all in the viability of the electoral system that has been stolen from them.<\/p>\n
Confidence \u2013 this fundamental ingredient that underpins democracy, the economy, finance; coexistence, basically \u2013 has now disappeared, for good, and between European countries, but also within the borders of each country. Europe\u2019s downward spiral is therefore complete: Britain will turn to the rest of the world, as Italy looks towards China, Poland towards the US, France more and more towards the Gulf nations, Germany towards its own commercial interests, and so on. In the end, the UK leaving the Union or staying in it (which is still possible) won\u2019t change anything because Europe has ceased to dream. Europe no longer inspires.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/em>There is a price to pay for forcingthe hand of generations of citizens, and the UK and EU will find very soon out what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brexit could have been a simple divorce between the UK and Europe, but the mounting tension between the British Parliament and the European Union is about to turn this separation into a much more deeply profound event. This is because Brexit won\u2019t just have major geopolitical ramifications in modern history. In fact, after France\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[648941323,648941663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-populism"],"yoast_head":"\n