The Habsburg Moment

Posted on AllSides July 26th, 2020
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The European Union is — maybe — on the verge of its much-discussed “Hamilton moment.”

A sweeping Franco-German proposal for a $2 trillion EU coronavirus-recovery program would see the European Union itself raising funds in the credit markets for the first time, essentially making the European Union a new issuer of sovereign debt. Such mutual debt had long been opposed by Germany and other wealthy EU members that dread the possibility of the federation being made into a transfer union in which the affluent north pays the taxes and the...

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/european-union-approaches-hamilton-moment-as-united-states-risks-decline/

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