{"id":18392,"date":"2020-04-03T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18392"},"modified":"2020-04-03T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T23:57:17","slug":"european-leaders-warn-coronavirus-could-lead-to-the-breakup-of-their-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/european-leaders-warn-coronavirus-could-lead-to-the-breakup-of-their-union\/","title":{"rendered":"European leaders warn coronavirus could lead to the breakup of their union"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Loveday Morris, Michael Birnbaum – April 1, 2020<\/p>\n

BERLIN \u2014The coronavirus pandemic, with its simultaneous health and economic crises, is<\/p>\n

deepening fault lines within Europe in a way some leaders fear could prove to be a final reckoning.<\/p>\n

The cohesion of the European Union had been battered by Brexit, bruised by the political fallout from the 2015 migration surge and the 2008 financial crisis, and challenged by rising autocracy in the east that runs contrary to the professed ideals of the European project.<\/p>\n

Now, if Europe\u2019s leaders cannot chart a more united course, the project lies in what one of its architects described this week as \u201cmortal danger.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, the response among European Union member states showed that national interests trump more-altruistic European ideals. Border restrictions were reimposed haphazardly<\/a>, and Germany and France threw up export bans<\/a> on medical equipment such as masks and ventilators, even as Italy clamored for assistance.<\/p>\n

Quick to capitalize were the propaganda machines of Russia and China. Moscow and Beijing have swept in with much-trumpeted \u2014 if sometimes defective \u2014 medical aid, pushing a savior narrative and providing fodder for the region\u2019s Euroskeptics.<\/p>\n

E.U. countries have begun to coordinate their efforts to procure supplies, and they have sent more aid to hard-hit Italy than China has. But the past week has seen a reemergence of a north-south rift over how to handle the economic response. The union is also being pulled east and west, as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has used emergency powers to effectively suspend democracy<\/a>, riding roughshod over Europe\u2019s basic principles of the rule of law.<\/p>\n

Collectively, these tensions could overwhelm the alliance.<\/p>\n

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