The Gordian knot of the Irish problem is irresolvable, and the only thing that is debatable is where to place the customs office to safeguard the European single market, between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom, or between the two Irish. Thus, the UK negotiated the creation of Regional Funds, pushed for a policy that involved greater coordination of foreign policy in Europe, renegotiated the Common Fisheries Policy, led CAP reform and the creation of the single market, advocated increased collaboration on defence, argued for Eastern European membership, and even voted for Turkish accession.īut the latest diplomatic barrage against what has been voluntarily agreed is hardly surprising.
#AULA MOUSE NOT LIGHTING UP FULL#
It is unusual that this is happening to a country that for almost half a century has been a full member of an organisation that it largely shaped. In light of the erratic behaviour of the British authorities, in contrast to the bureaucratic circumspection displayed by the European Union since the result of the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU was confirmed, it is hard to resist thinking that Brexit has given birth to a mouse that has no choice but to flee forward. He uses to explain his thesis the allegory of the mouse that has been caught by a cat, and plays with it, letting it scamper futilely to escape the feline that has merely delayed the rodent's fate. The South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues in his essay "On Power" that the true demonstration of power is not in the struggle, but in its absence.
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