Europhiles must ‘WAKE UP before EU sleepwalks into OBLIVION!’ – George Soros
THE European Union could crumble like the Soviet Union if its citizens fail to wake up before it’s too late, billionaire philanthropist George Soros said.
By ALICE SCARSI
Express.co.uk
Tue, Feb 12, 2019
The pro-EU businessman appealed to europhiles, urging them to act before populist and right-wing forces take over the continent and destroy the European dream. He wrote in online business publication MarketWatch: “Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If they don’t, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991.
“Neither our leaders nor ordinary citizens seem to understand that we are experiencing a revolutionary moment, that the range of possibilities is very broad, and that the eventual outcome is thus highly uncertain.
“Most of us assume that the future will more or less resemble the present, but this is not necessarily so.
“In a long and eventful life, I have witnessed many periods of what I call radical disequilibrium. We are living in such a period today.”
The next defining moment for the European Union is the European Parliament election, to take place in May.
The upcoming vote will likely see the polarisation of the two positions on the EU, with pro-EU forces fighting against eurosceptic populist parties.
Mr Soros said: “The next inflection point will be the elections for the European Parliament in May 2019.
“Unfortunately, anti-European forces will enjoy a competitive advantage in the balloting.
“There are several reasons for this, including the outdated party system that prevails in most European countries, the practical impossibility of treaty change, and the lack of legal tools for disciplining member states that violate the principles on which the European Union was founded.
“The antiquated party system hampers those who want to preserve the values on which the EU was founded, but helps those who want to replace those values with something radically different.
“This is true in individual countries and even more so in trans-European alliances.”
Europhile Mr Soros finds in Britain the perfect example of “antiquated party structures” preventing the people from expressing themselves.
He wrote: “In the United Kingdom, too, an antiquated party structure prevents the popular will from finding proper expression.
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