"Seen from Elsewhere" N ° 15 - After the economic crisis, the identity divide

The Twenty-Seven left on Friday without overcoming their differences on the recovery plan of 750 billion euros. The "frugal" (Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Denmark) always stand together so that this money, which will mainly benefit the countries of the South, is not granted without consideration. European heads of state are going to the next European summit, scheduled for mid-July, to reach a compromise.

In addition to the economic crisis, there was an identity divide, imported from the United States after the death of George Floyd. Austria, Spain, Portugal and Great Britain are transformed into memorial battlefields. In France, after the statues of De Gaulle or Schoelcher, that of Marshal Gallieni was vandalized on Thursday. The "decolonials" do not see him as the rescuer of Paris, but the governor of Madagascar who suppressed the Malagasy rebellion against French colonization. This ideological purge can still go far; Didn't Leon Blum speak of "superior races"?

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