Rebirth of England.

Chapter 875 The Helplessness of Reality

Since he did not want to see Britain drifting further and further away from Europe as in the past, ultimately leading to Brexit, Barron began to actively mediate between Germany, France and Britain.

Cameron is not necessarily unwilling to contribute to the solution of the European debt crisis. He has previously stated that Britain can contribute 100 billion euros, but hopes it will be within the framework of the G20 rather than through the IMF. Of course, his remarks also caused dissatisfaction from the IMF President, former British Prime Minister Brown...

Moreover, when Cameron returned to the country and faced criticism from within the Labour Party and the coalition government, although he defended himself in Parliament, he also expressed some regrets.

Therefore, at this time, Barron, who has good relations with France and Germany and can also communicate directly with Cameron, becomes the best candidate to mediate.

You know, in the previous EU summit, Sarkozy and Cameron had a quarrel. Sarkozy said to Cameron:

"We are tired of your criticism of us, tired of your meddling. You say you hate the euro, you don't want to be part of the eurozone, and now you want to disrupt us in our meetings."

Therefore, if the two sides were to face each other again, the final result would probably be a bad one.

Finally, at the beginning of this year, under Barron's tough "persuasion", Cameron finally changed his attitude and expressed his willingness to assume Britain's responsibility and inject 300 billion euros into the International Monetary Fund. Driven by the change in Britain's attitude, other non-eurozone EU member states have also successively agreed to their previously promised capital injection shares.

However, in the EU, France and Germany also made some compromises with Britain. At the EU summit in January 2012, they adjusted the previous "New Fiscal Agreement"...

The latest version of the fiscal pact stipulates that the annual structural deficit shall not exceed 0.5% of GDP as the medium-term fiscal target of the contracting parties, but allows the contracting parties to "temporarily deviate from the medium-term target in the event of abnormal events beyond their control that have a significant impact on the government's financial situation, or in a severe economic recession as defined in the revised Stability and Growth Pact."

At that EU summit, Cameron expressed satisfaction with the final compromise on the originally tough new EU fiscal treaty.

In fact, during this process, Barron sometimes felt very powerless.

After all, even now, there is not much he can do. For Britain, there are both advantages and disadvantages whether it integrates into Europe or leaves the EU.

For example, if the UK joins the eurozone, then the loss of its independent regulatory policy for its own currency will pose a huge challenge to both the UK's economy and London's status as a financial center.

And judging from the current situation, the country will also have to bear the burden of other countries such as Greece and Ireland, whose economies are not competitive but need to provide super high welfare to their citizens.

But if it does not join the euro zone, then in a situation like the European debt crisis, in order to maintain its influence in Europe, it will still need to come up with money to rescue those countries, just like it did at this EU summit.

The advantage is that they can access the vast European market. After all, there are no tariff barriers within the EU, and the flow of people within the Schengen area is also very convenient. This will enable British companies to have greater advantages over Asian and North American companies in the European market, making the European market their "base."

However, there is no perfect thing in the world. If there are benefits, there will naturally be responsibilities. Especially for the "big guys" in the EU, such as Britain, France and Germany, they will also need to bear more EU spending...

If Britain leaves the EU...

Then, just like Barron in his previous life, losing Europe would be a huge blow to the manufacturing industry in Britain. In addition, if Britain leaves Europe, its influence in Europe will gradually disappear. In this case, Britain can only adjust its national strategy and become a firm ally of the United States' global strategy. To put it bluntly, without Europe as a foundation, Britain can only serve as a dog for the United States...

This is naturally not what Barron wants to see.

Ultimately, Britain will not feel comfortable with either joining or leaving the EU, because the EU is too loose.

To put it bluntly, the EU is just an economic organization and is still a long way from being a country, although the EU has a central bank, a parliament, courts and other organizations.

But in terms of military, it is still dominated by NATO. To put it bluntly, NATO is a vassal of the United States, which is the leader and has the final say.

Among the European countries in NATO, France is the only one with a little autonomy in military affairs - this can be regarded as Charles de Gaulle's political legacy. At least there are no American troops stationed in France, and their military research and development has always been relatively independent.

And the other two tall guys, Germany... do they still have an army?

England?

"England is just a missile base for America..."

Within the EU, each country has its own interests and is not united at all.

This has resulted in the EU being unable to resolve many issues, and most of the time they are stuck in their own wrangling - even the proposals jointly promoted by the UK, France and Germany require repeated wrangling, and the ones that can finally be agreed upon are often the results of a significant reduction in the original proposals...

What's more, Europe is still constrained militarily by NATO, which is dominated by the United States...

This has led to the fact that although Europe, China and the United States seem to be in a three-way balance of power in terms of economic size, in fact, Europe cannot stand up to the United States at all. Even if the heads of state of each country are openly monitored by the United States, they can only pretend not to know...

Many people see this point about Europe, but it is definitely extremely difficult to truly integrate Europe, especially under the premise that America has always been on guard against this, and with each country's careful consideration to safeguard its own interests.

This also led to von der Leyen's later choice to fully turn to the United States, relying on the United States to achieve her "European unification" and attempting to concentrate more European power in the EU.

It is for this reason that Barron clearly understands that it is difficult to change the current situation by himself alone, and he can only try his best to protect his own interests.

In order to safeguard Barron's own interests, Britain needs to maintain its influence in Europe, so that his industries can smoothly reach Europe and consolidate the European market.

As for Europe's greatest hope for the future, it can only be to hope that it can hold out until there is a country that can pose a threat to the United States and ultimately lead to the decline of its global control. Only after that moment comes will Europe have the possibility of breaking free from the shackles imposed on them by the United States and gaining "autonomy."

(End of this chapter)