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Europe Is Dead Net Zero and utopian social policies killed it. E BY MITCH FEIERSTEIN


urope is pursuing a naive utopian agenda that has delivered negative economic outcomes. By pushing socialist ideals including the Green New Deal and Net Zero, as well as progressive


social policies that diminish national cultures and identi- ties, its faceless bureaucracy is harming all its citizens. This is a cautionary tale for America. Rather than prioritizing the needs of its peoples, the Euro-


pean Union’s principal technocrats — France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen — are hyperfocused on preserving the EU’s bureaucracy and their own power. Keir Starmer, the prime minister of Britain, which


voted to quit the EU 10 years ago, is marching to the same suicidal tune. In their trans-Atlantic dealings, these leaders are car-


rying out a strategy of appeasement and stonewalling to disrupt President Donald Trump’s second-term return to conservatism and U.S. jobs growth, hoping to stall long


EU Built on Inequity T


he European Union emerged in the 1950s with the objective of curbing


extreme nationalism, the root cause of two devastating world wars in the 20th century.


The EU made promises of economic


interdependence to discourage conflict, but also imposed naive social policies with no regard for the cultural interests or national identities of the populations.


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enough for the next liberal wave in Washington. No wonder America is in better economic shape than


Europe. EU policies have led to skyrocketing energy prices, plummeting productivity, and stagnant GDPs. The EU has committed to spending 34% of its budget —


658 billion euros — on ill-conceived environmental policies. In 2018, Trump predicted at the U.N. that “Germany


will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.” Berlin laughed at his warning. Seven years later, Germany faces record energy prices,


the highest corporate bankruptcies since WWII, and three straight years of recession. While China commissions two new coal plants every week,


Europe’s war on fossil fuels, littering landscapes with ugly wind turbines and grotesque solar panels, is economic suicide. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel phased out


nuclear energy in 2011. Starmer is aiming in Britain for an 81% emissions’ cut by


2035, even though the U.K. accounts for under 1% of global CO2 emissions.


In doing so, it became the antithesis


of American self-governance anchored in democracy, individual rights, and civic responsibility. Today, the EU has 27 member states


and over 450 million people. Its structure reveals the farce of


proportionality: tiny Malta, with a population of just half a million, wields the same voting weight as Germany, with 84 million people. Such inequity allows unelected


technocrats to expand control far beyond


the original mandate, eroding national sovereignty and paving the way for the destruction of unique customs, traditions, and values. Twenty-one EU members share a single


currency, the euro, yet they measure their shadow economies inconsistently. Unelected technocrats set the rules, crushing national economies and tightening Brussels’ stranglehold. This Frankenstein currency fuels stagnation and de-industrialization. — M.F.


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