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The shortcut was hard enough. More than a decade ago, where Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain fought to prove credit for a doubtful world, the term “pigs” was hunting. But it was an harmless phrase, the “ocean”, which really hurts me, such as the description of East Poland Europe. (Or Hamstead A “suburb”) for thousands of years, the Mediterranean world looked at most of what happened north of the Alps as transverse, if not barbaric. How to sting this concession.
Revenge of some kind. Spain was the best wealthy performance in the world in 2024, and was sentenced to economist. Greece was borrowing cheaply like France at the end of the same year. Foreign delegations are now disturbing the political class in Athens to obtain evidence of how to make a painful and fruitful reform. Portugal has grown faster than Germany since before the epidemic.
Economic numbers will switch up and down. What will not change, and I feel, is the gradual drifting of the southern political authority on the continent. The only European president of the government in the inauguration of Donald Trump was Georgia Meloni. There is more than one woman's opportunism, or the fact that Britain, France and Germany are led by wounded animals at the present time. After Britain's exit from the European Union, space opened naturally to another large nation to assure itself in the European Union. Among the clear candidates – Poland, Spain and Italy – two from the Mediterranean Sea.
Even the biggest problem in the face of southern Europe, exposed to irregular migration across the sea, is a type of leverage. The rest of the continent will have to motivate the likes of Italy for the incoming waving north. (The European Union has a similar arrangement with Türkiye.) The borders of the southern continent now have a strategic value that is difficult to portray in the founding of the European Union. Given the birth rates in Africa and Europe, the chaos interrupted in the coast, they will grow, do not fade.
Even this does not reach the root of the prominent medal influence. In the low -growth continent, the trick is to take advantage of more dynamic parts of the world. It is important, therefore, which countries have historical and linguistic ties to where. Madrid is now competing with Miami as a home for the capital and talent from Latin Latin America. Whether Lisbon is the scale to serve as a channel similar to the Brazilians, we will see, but the Lusufon's main link is present.
It is the northern European Union, through a historical accident, which is similar to the next world. There is no French, Dutch, or German power on the horizon, unless it is transferred to Madagascar. With the appearance of Spanish (which overthrew French as the most familiar with A level in Britain, it is not interested in the global level), my sense of place in Europe has changed in Europe, and where it looks a bridge to another place, throughout the training course. For my adult life.
When Marco Polo went to China, he explained it as two worlds, this was the difference between the North (“Cathy”) and the south (“Manji”). In India, spoken languages, acquired income and the sounds represented deeply changing as the widespread GNA plain is south. The Americans fought a civil war along more or less cooking limits. Any large body of populated land is subject to a dispute from the north and the south (think about Nigeria), and is often rooted in solid factors such as average temperature and the basic crop. Europe is slight. Since almost all the continent is high -income, a Christian majority and is tightly packed, I confirm that, according to global standards, one country.
But this should have made the northern waiver more than that. It still exists. Fear between Britain's elites is that the country “becomes Italy”, as if it was not a worse fate that could afflict people. Well, comprehensive theories around the unrelated south, a beautiful place for the weekend farm and not much, looks strange now. Although economic gains since 2010 can be late, the strategic trends that enable Med can pass without notice. The future of the continent will be largely determined by the forty -fifth parallel, as was its deep past. Who do you call the peripheral?
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