One of the most spectacular of these is how Europe is losing its significance and even becoming poorer. Obviously, this does not happen from one moment to the next, so many people dispute the fact as well, and at most talk about the temporary weakness of the EU. But, unfortunately, they are wrong. Here are the seven reasons:
1. Mississippi, the poorest state in the USA, is now richer than Germany, the most powerful country in the EU.2. An American’s money is worth 80% more than a British or French, 50% more than a German’s. 3. European companies are stagnating. A single US company, NVIDIA, is worth more alone than all the companies listed on the UK stock exchange combined. Meanwhile, none of the 10 areas related to communication and artificial intelligence with the largest research input are dominated by Europe. There are no chip manufacturers. There are no rocket companies. There are no social media giants. There are no relevant actors in space technology. The production of drones, cryptocurrency, blockchain, robots is also stalling.4. According to the IMF, “costs in Europe are eight times as high” as in the United States. A significant part of this is energy costs, electricity and gas, and things that are not available elsewhere.5. The gas flare that flares up at the site of each international oil and gas project signals a transformation in international relations and opportunities, that is, in the reorganization of the world. In none of these cases do they count on Europe, nor in the complete transformation of the world. Europe has been geopolitically devalued.
6. The fertility rate in the EU is at an all-time low. All this in a way that in these European reports there is no distinction between the fertility rate of immigrants living here who are orders of magnitude higher and that of real Europeans. While a hundred years ago there were 14 million Arabs living in Egypt compared to 63 million Germans and 65 million French, today there will be 117 million, and by 2050 there will be 162 million. India’s population was 251 million a hundred years ago, today it is 1.4 billion, and by 2050 there will be almost 1.7 billion. Nigeria has grown from 18 million to 233 million in 100 years, and by 2050 there will be nearly 360 million people.
7. Finally, the complete loss of Europe’s identity occurred. The result of the notion disturbed by the artificial worldview of individualistic hypersensitivity is dissolution and alienation, which is a clear prerequisite for an open society. Detachment from natural bonds: nation, state and history. Alienation from the places of birth, the identity in the landscape and space, the past and the familiar. Separation from those who matured culture into a civilization and created within this framework. And this is fatal for Europe.
These seven phenomena make it clear where Europe is headed.
Translated and edited by Hans Seckler