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Global Geo-political Series: Further EU integration unlikely before German election

In response to Trump administration’s criticism of the European Union and Germany as a currency exploiter, European Council President Donald Tusk has called for spectacular steps from the European Union leaders in order to avoid disintegration of the European Union. But such a step would mean that Germany, which has immensely benefited from the euro, would have to take up steps to ways to distribute acquired wealth across the Eurozone under a completely new structure of a fiscal union. Germany will have to recognize that all the country in Eurozone cannot operate in ways Germany does. All countries are structurally, socially and culturally different. So, not only Germany but all Eurozone and European Union countries would have to find ways to integrate further and in a way which doesn’t leave millions of people left out. Simply because the current approach has triggered lack of faith in the European Union and has given to the rise in populism or nationalism.

However, any such action or approach is unlikely until the two key elections are over this year; first one in France, where National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who promised to take France out of the monetary Union, is expected to win the first round of election and the second one in Germany, where the rise of the anti-immigrant party Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) is set to enter German parliament for the very first time. It is not likely to be before December that EU leaders to look for ways to achieve further integration.

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