Conflicts have already erupted. Paris wanted an reliable Frenchman. French intransigence prevailed. The eight-year term of Europe's first central banker will be split in two. That is the post-Cold War struggle within all nations.
Corporatists put profit first and sovereignty last.
Conservatives and traditionalists put the country before the economy, and the nation and its people first. Alexander Hamilton was a patriot. His European imitators are doing the opposite. Putting Europe's economy ahead of its countries, they are erecting new bonds of trade between nations, while ripping up the old bonds of mutual dependency within nations. Across Europe, workers are being sacrificed, patriots ignored.