This year will be harsh for Europe not only due to Brexit, because other member states besides the UK could also bring the bloc down.
Nationwide protests in France are only the first sign of looming wider unrest, noting the low approval rating of President Emmanuel Macron, possibly leading to the implosion of the European Union in 2019.
Italy has got four trillion in loans they said there are not going repay… France has got a similar situation but they’ve got civil unrest with the population burning down Paris. So one of them will leave.
Both countries have been breaking EU budget rules. After just one year of compliance in 2018, Paris announced that its budget deficit for 2019 is set to be 0.2 percent higher than the 3% threshold that the bloc’s rules allow.
Brussels agreed to tolerate the breach as it had been doing so for almost a decade before Macron’s presidency.
Italy has also been at loggerheads with the 28-nation union. Last year, the EU Commission wanted to put Italy in an economic disciplinary program over a serious breach of EU regulations on debt.
The standoff between Rome and Brussels was settled only in mid-December, when Italy agreed to a budget deal despite domestic criticism from opposition.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point European News 2019.
Not if the ECB keeps printing fake money for the vultures to feed on?