Chapter 875 The Helplessness of Reality

Since he did not want to see Britain drifting away from Europe as in his previous life, which would eventually lead to Brexit, Barron began to actively mediate between Germany, France and Britain.

Cameron is not necessarily unwilling to contribute to the solution of the European debt crisis. He has also stated before that Britain can contribute 10 billion euros, but he hopes it will be within the framework of the G20 rather than through the IMF - of course, his These remarks also caused dissatisfaction with IMF President and former British Prime Minister Brown...

And when he returned home and faced criticism from within the Labor Party and the coalition government, although Cameron defended this in parliament, he was not without regrets.

Therefore, at this time, Barron, who had good relations with France and Germany and was able to talk directly with Cameron, became the best candidate to mediate.

You know, in the previous EU summit, Sarkozy and Cameron had a direct quarrel. Sarkozy said bluntly to Cameron at the time:

"We are fed up with your criticism of us, fed up with your finger-pointing. You say you hate the euro and you don't want to join the eurozone, but now you want to interfere with us in our meetings."

Therefore, if the two sides are allowed to face each other directly, I am afraid that the final result will still be an unhappy ending.

Finally, at the beginning of this year, under Barron's tough "persuasion", Cameron finally changed his attitude and expressed his willingness to take on Britain's responsibilities and inject 30 billion euros into the International Monetary Fund. The change in Britain's attitude Driven by this, other non-eurozone EU member states have also successively agreed to their previously promised capital injection shares.

However, in the EU, France and Germany also made certain compromises with Britain. At the EU summit in January 2012, they adjusted the previous "New Fiscal Treaty"...

The latest version of the Fiscal New Covenant stipulates that the annual structural deficit shall not exceed 0.5% of GDP as the medium-term fiscal target of the state party, but allows the state party to "abnormal events beyond the control that have a significant impact on the government's financial position, or after revision A period of severe economic recession as defined by the Stability and Growth Pact, temporarily deviating from the medium-term target.”

At that EU summit, Cameron expressed satisfaction with the compromise finally made in the originally tough EU fiscal new treaty.

In fact, during this process, Barron sometimes felt very powerless.

After all, even now, there is not much he can do. For Britain, whether it is integrating into Europe or leaving the EU, there are advantages and disadvantages.

For example, if the UK joins the Eurozone, it will lose its independent regulation policy on its own legal currency, which will pose a huge challenge to the UK's economy and London's status as a financial center.

And judging from the current situation, it also has to bear the drag of other countries such as Greece and Ireland whose economies are not competitive but need to provide ultra-high welfare for their citizens.

But if we don't join the Eurozone, then in a situation like the European debt crisis, if we want to maintain our influence in Europe, we still need to spend money to rescue those countries like we did during this EU summit.

The advantage is that it can access the vast European market. After all, there are no tariff barriers in the EU, because the movement of people in the Schengen area is also very convenient. This can give British companies greater advantages over Asian and North American companies in the European market, making the European market Become its "base".

However, nothing is perfect in the world. If there are benefits, of course you need to take responsibility. Especially the "big guys" in the EU like Britain, France and Germany, they also need to bear more EU expenditures...

If Britain leaves the EU...

Then it will be like Barron's previous life. After losing Europe, it will first be a very big blow to the British domestic manufacturing industry.

In addition, if they leave Europe, Britain's influence in Europe will gradually disappear. Under such circumstances, Britain can only adjust their national strategy and become a staunch ally of the United States' global strategy. To put it bluntly, there is no European role. foundation, then Britain can only obediently play the role of a dog for the United States...

Naturally, this is not what Barron wants to see.

In the final analysis, Britain will not be so comfortable between the two options of joining the EU and leaving the EU. The reason is that the EU is too loose.

To put it bluntly, the EU is just an economic organization and is far from being a country. Although the EU has a central bank, a parliament, courts and other organizations.

But in terms of military affairs, it is still dominated by NATO, and NATO, to put it bluntly, is the leader of the United States, and it is a vassal of the United States.

The only European country in NATO that has a little bit of military autonomy is France - this can be regarded as the political legacy of de Gaulle. At least there are no American troops stationed in France, and their military research and development has always been relatively of independence.

And the other two tall guys, Germany... do they still have an army?

British?

"Britain is just a missile base for the United States..."

Within the EU, each country has its own interests and is not united at all.

This has resulted in the EU basically being unable to solve too many things, and most of the time it is engaged in its own wrangling - even the bills jointly promoted by Britain, France and Germany require repeated push and pull, and those who can finally reach an agreement are often A result that was heavily watered down in the original motion…

What’s more, Europe is still constrained by NATO, which is dominated by the United States, in terms of military strength…

This has led to the fact that although Europe, China and the United States seem to be in a three-way balance of power in terms of economic size, in fact, Europe cannot stand up to the United States at all. Even if the heads of state are clearly being monitored by the United States, they can only pretend not to know…

There are many people who see this in Europe, but it is definitely extremely difficult to really integrate Europe, especially under the premise that the United States has always been on guard against this, and under the careful thoughts of various countries to safeguard their own interests.

This also led to the later result that von der Leyen chose to fully lean on the United States, relying on the United States to achieve her "European unification" and concentrate more European power in the European Union.

It is precisely because of this that Barron clearly understands that it is difficult to change the current situation by himself, and he can only do his best to safeguard his own interests.

In order to safeguard Barron’s own interests, Britain needs to maintain its influence in Europe, so that his industry can smoothly reach Europe and stabilize the European market.

As for Europe's greatest hope for the future, it can only be to hope that it can hold out until there is a country that can pose a threat to the United States and ultimately lead to the decline of its global control. Only after that moment comes will Europe have the possibility of breaking free from the shackles imposed on them by the United States and gaining "autonomy."