The Coming Euromess

ANGELO CODEVILLA

SHOULD Americans be delighted that, as the State Department believes, Europe is uniting into a powerful partner for peace, prosperity, and civilization? Should we join in the fashionable fears of those who see the Maastricht Treaty of December 1991 endowing 350 million Europeans with a Japanese-style industrial policy that will relegate the U.S. to third place in a global economic competition? Or will we look on with dismay as European governments, under leaders largely lacking in aptitude, legitimacy, and vision, buck the healthiest trends in the modern world?

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ANGELO CODEVILLA

SHOULD Americans be delighted that, as the State Department believes, Europe is uniting into a powerful partner for peace, prosperity, and civilization? Should we join in the fashionable fears of those who see the Maastricht Treaty of December 1991 endowing 350 million Europeans with a Japanese-style industrial policy that will relegate the U.S. to third place in a global economic competition? Or will we look on with dismay as European governments, under leaders largely lacking in aptitude, legitimacy, and vision, buck the healthiest trends in the modern world?