glamour<\/em> where previously there was nothing but reprimands and humiliation. Now it seems that the Europe of wine, the Mediterranean and the sun has a say in the critical decisions the Eurozone must take. An undeserved prominence that is the result of the morbid obesity of its collective debt \u2013 let\u2019s not fool ourselves. Nevertheless, this greater influence of the ClubMed does not seem to be resolving the agony and deadlock that the Eurozone has been suffering for a couple of years now.<\/p>\nBut why is the European crisis not leading to a financially and fiscally united Europe? Is Germany the bogeyman preventing the Eurozone from taking its final step forward because of its refusal to foot the bill for our debts? The answer is no. Germany agrees to pool debt, insolvency and risk, provided that sovereignty is also pooled first.<\/strong> In other words, the beer-producing nations of Europe will only agree to foot the bill if the wine-producing nations of Europe agree to cede their sovereignty to a unified European government. And that\u2019s where the problem lies, because we\u2019ve come up against the Church. France and its revolutionary republic do not, at present, envisage ceding sovereignty at such a high level. It is impossible for a politician to survive by justifying such a historic surrender to their electorate, and we know full well that cowardice and the instinct for survival took hold of politics decades ago. For their part, Italy and Spain are countries whose sovereignty is also highly prized, and whose cultures are deeply rooted. Former empires that will not allow themselves to be governed from outside so easily, even though we cannot afford to have our own government.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.arqhys.com\/fotos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Fotos-de-bodegas-de-vino.jpg\")
The problem is that we began ceding monetary sovereignty 20 years ago. And it was then, almost without realising it, that the seeds were sown for the eventual total surrender of sovereignty. Because you cannot have a single currency without a single Treasury and a single public finance system. In short, a single government. But our pro-European politicians, led by Helmut Kohl, believed in the last century that houses could be built starting from the roof without fear of collapse. And they also believed they could leave that single completed phase in place indefinitely whilst the rest of the building stood still. But no. The Eurozone will either come into being by unifying a single European sovereignty, or it will not. And that is precisely what Germany is demanding in return for taking on our debts and insolvencies, which are already extreme.<\/p>\n
It should therefore be clear to everyone that the responsibility for the deadlock<\/em> or the dead end in which the Eurozone finds itself is shared by both sides: the brewers and the wine producers. The former for demanding that the latter cede their sovereignty, and the latter for demanding bailouts in exchange solely for recognising more and more debt. Personally, I am prepared to cede as much sovereignty as necessary to a European government, in which the beer-drinking nations of Europe will, logically, carry considerable weight \u2013 given their population and the scale of their economies. After all, they have shown themselves to be better at governing than we are. But it seems that our wine-producing leaders and fellow citizens are not up for changing their ways and raising a glass of warm beer every now and then. But who said that being European would be compatible with our wines, if our economies need bailouts from the beer producers?<\/p>\nWithout an immediate transfer of sovereignty, this looks a bit dodgy\u2026 like beer, of course.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Un amigo m\u00edo me habl\u00f3 de la frontera o l\u00ednea de la cerveza, refiri\u00e9ndose a la divisi\u00f3n fronteriza imaginaria que separa la Europa acreedora, rica y productiva, de la deudora, insolvente y recesiva. Es decir que las casualidades -o no- de la vida, y la victoria de Hollande en Francia, han hecho que la Eurozona […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,45,41,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualidad","category-asesoramiento-deportistas-artistas","category-economia-y-finanzas","category-reflexion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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A friend of mine told me about the \u2018beer border\u2019 or \u2018beer line\u2019, referring to the imaginary boundary that separates creditor Europe \u2013 rich and productive \u2013 from debtor Europe \u2013 insolvent and in recession. In other words, the coincidences \u2013 or perhaps not \u2013 of life, and Hollande\u2019s victory in France, have meant that the Eurozone is now divided into the rich countries, which usually consume and produce beer, and the poor countries, which have traditionally favoured \u2013 and continue to favour \u2013 wine. Two very distinct cultures and, probably, two very different ways of viewing and living life as well.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.netpublikationer.dk\/um\/8585\/images\/Trade20industry20and2043D000x3x3.jpg\")
Recently, with France\u2019s radical change of stance, also