The Long Arm Of The EU: The Association Agreement And Expansionist Policies

Click here to access article by Jürgen Wagner from The Greanville Post. 

It appears to me that this author's article reveals the perspective of many right-wing members of the European elites who represent the European branch of the US Empire. They, as demonstrated in this article, have pretensions of forming their own empire, while vaguely acknowledging that it can only be a branch of the larger US Empire. In addition I think it is interesting because, unlike many other imperialist writers of our day, Wagner is rather candid about the imperial ambitions of the European capitalist elites who, I think, can be safely regarded as close collaborators with US ruling class directors.

Influential exponents of European politics are more and more openly articulating the pretension to join the front line of the battle for global power and influence. Thus Social-Democrat Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, said in 2013:

“Whether it wants to be or nor, Europe is a ‘global player’. The EU is the biggest and richest single market in the world, our economic strength accounts for a quarter of the world’s GDP. The EU is the biggest trading bloc in the world, the biggest donor of development aid in the world - the EU is an economic giant. Global economic power goes hand in hand with global political responsibility; Europe cannot back out of that responsibility. Europe’s partners are justified in expecting that Europe will face up to its responsibility and that the economic superpower will also become a global political superpower”.