Should EU Choose Anarchy as an Organizing Principle? (Brussels Morning)
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 2023-08-24

Read the column: https://brusselsmorning.com/should-eu-choose-anarchy-as-an-organizing-principle/33939/

The recent spate of fraud and corruption scandals in the EU’s institutions signals the end of an era. Disillusionment and disenchantment with the rapacious Anglo-Saxon model of dog eat dog capitalism may yet lead to a tectonic ideological shift from laissez faire and self-regulation to state intervention and regulation. 

This would be the reversal of a trend dating back to Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental - and way more ancient - tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt.