Authored by Konstantin Richter via Politico.eu,
Last weekend, European leaders gathered in Rome for the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. They discussed, not for the first time, how to get the EU back on track. And they told each other they are still committed to the Union and believe in its future. (We’ve heard that one before, too.)
Today in Rome, the EU celebrates its 60th anniversary. Leaders hailed the visionary "war generation" of leaders from old foes France and Germany who signed the Treaty of Rome in the same room on March 25, 1957, along with Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; some offered personal memories of their own generation's debts to the expanding European Union.
Via Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
Virtue-signaling doesn't signal virtue--it signals decline and collapse.
The leaders of the lower chambers of parliament of Germany, Italy, France, and Luxembourg have called for a European “Federal Union” in an open letter published in Italian newspaper La Stampa on Sunday.
Originally authored by Admiral Ben Moreell on January 1st, 1956; via The Burning Platform blog,