For the first time in 47 years, the EU is made up solely of historical losers. And being the losers has resulted in much invalubale wisdom that the world should look up to.
Continue reading “The EU Is Finally a Union of Losers Only. And That Is a Great Thing!”
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Or why Britain is a lot more like the USA, Russia, China, Turkey, or Iran than it is like Germany, France, Italy, Spain, or Poland.
Continue reading “Post-Brexit EU Is Finally a Union of True Humility. And That Is a Great Thing!”
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Brexit is Britain’s biggest European opt-out – the opt-out from responsibility. Nothing more, nothing less.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Franco-Germany seems like the only candidate capable of filling the Western leadership gap opened up by Trump and Brexit.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Losing influence inside and through the EU as a result of Brexit will amount to Britain’s loss of one its last trappings of being a first-rate great power.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
In the three-and-a-half years since the Brits voted to leave the Union, the opportunity cost from the Brexit process has been enormous – for the EU, for the UK, and for the entire West.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
The Irish border backstop quagmire is certain to make all EU countries think of their border regions if they are ever tempted to consider leaving the Union.
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
The British people would never have fallen for Brexit, had the European values of today not been completely frozen out of the Brexit debate. Continue reading “Look Back in Anger: How the Brexit Debate Was Framed All Wrong (written for The European Views*)”
(*This opinion / analytical article was written by Ivan Dikov for The European Views website.)
Britain’s supposed departure through Brexit is a golden opportunity for the European Union to seize control of its de facto official working language to the benefit of hundreds of millions of Europeans. Continue reading “EU Must Adopt ‘EU English’ as Its Official Working Language after Brexit. Here’s Why (written for The European Views*)”
Modern-day Western pseudo-liberalism boils down to grave misunderstanding and distortion of some of the most basic principles of the noble and lofty classical liberalism.
What you end up with is: “US President Donald Trump today signed an executive order on…” Continue reading “President Donald Trump and the (Pseudo-)Liberal Elites Who Got Him Elected”
A post-Brexit Britain (England) could fare decently on its own since it remains armed with the Anglo-Saxon principles in government, and everything else.
Britain is to rely increasingly on its special relationship with America because of Brexit; yet, because of Brexit that relationship won’t be so special anymore.
Continue reading “Brexiting Britain’s ‘Special Relationship’ with the USA: Not So Special Anymore!”
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