Europe as in the European Union, the Eurozone. There is a lot at stake and its unraveling would be a horrendous task. Not that history is not replete with “horrendous” tasks, such as the French Revolution say or any other of these historical world changing events. Are we in for one now?<\/p>\n
If you really want to know, bring out St John’s Book of Revelation or, even better Nostradamus’ quatraines. (It has never ceased to amaze me how all these esoteric ramblings have been and are being interpreted any way one wants. But be that as it may.)<\/p>\n
Oscar Wilde once famously commented that the US and England had very much in common apart from the language.<\/p>\n
Professor Yannis Varoufakis<\/a> has contributed with the following comment: <\/p>\n “A continent which began uniting under many different languages and cultures ended up divided by a common currency.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He also reminds us of Gandhi’s famous dictum when asked what he thought of Western civilization, ??it would be a very good idea.? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n This comment no longer even arouses a smile for the witticism. Europe, as part of what used to be known as “Western Civilization”, if not the very mother of western civilization, no longer has any claim to civilization at all.<\/p>\n So what kind of future lies in store for the razed ground that is Europe today?<\/p>\n Europe as in the European Union, the Eurozone. There is a lot at stake and its unraveling would be a horrendous task. Not that history is not replete with “horrendous” tasks, such as the French Revolution say or any other of these historical world changing events. Are we in for one now? If you really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}