The French have always been at the heart of the protection racket.

A little more about France; an abstract mainly from elsewhere with a few extras:-



France has many many problems - but potentially, they have the talent and resilience to overcome some of them, at least.
the French, however... and especially via the nascent HQ in Brussels.... seem to have no way of defending the raids on European funds from the Eastern Bloc and the related disaster in Greece. For some reason they cannot stop that rot. And, they hide behind a heap of bureaucracy and the thought that "something will be done, somehow" (by somebody else, or by luck).
Meanwhile their "suits" coming out of Ecole Polytechnique are contemptuous of their own people, their country and their people's future; much like certain UK politicians.
Surely the French (or anyone else) cannot believe Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Moldova* have anything to offer the good people in Europe but grief, criminality and expense ?

All these countries are primed to join the EU soon. Like the rest of EBloc, the result for France will be more unemployment and more imported criminals and freeloaders.
(*Even if Moldova does not join the EU soon, about 1m of its' citizens were issued Romanian passports a few years ago as part of the internal politics between those two nations).


There is a "good" Europe to be had.
Build a border across East Germany and draw the line down to include Italy. Phone up Norway and persuade them back in.
Everywhere else (including Greece, unfortunately) is kicked out.
Put the Germans in charge of infrastructure and engineering, Scandinavians in charge of social care and logic, Italians and French for design and agriculture, English for Banking and Law.

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Dave