{"id":29504,"date":"2025-06-03T10:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/?p=29504"},"modified":"2025-06-03T10:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:46:40","slug":"europe-out-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/european-union\/europe-out-of-love","title":{"rendered":"Europe: Out of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"52\" data-end=\"222\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29501\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/european-union\/europe-out-of-love\/attachment\/karol-nawrocki-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Karol-Nawrocki.png?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,683\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Karol-Nawrocki\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Karol-Nawrocki.png?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29501\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Karol-Nawrocki.png?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Karol-Nawrocki.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Karol-Nawrocki.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Karol-Nawrocki.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"52\" data-end=\"222\">\n<p data-start=\"52\" data-end=\"222\">The election of the nationalist Nawrocki in Poland? \u2026 even though the country is experiencing full employment and Poland is the largest beneficiary of European aid?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"224\" data-end=\"466\">Yes, indeed! A thriving economy is no longer a political life insurance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"224\" data-end=\"466\">We must come to terms with the fact that Western Europe \u2014 hesitant and technocratic \u2014 acts as a repellent to some of our neighbors, and not the least important ones!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election of the nationalist Nawrocki in Poland? \u2026 even though the country is experiencing full employment and Poland is the largest beneficiary of European aid? Yes, indeed! A thriving economy is no longer a political life insurance. 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