Europe’s rightward drift
Two of the great issues which animated the woke EU establishment until recently were hatred of Donald Trump and Brexit. Trump’s departure has left a sense of bereavement. Contempt for Britain over Brexit lingers in middle-finger gestures like Brussels’ bloody-minded policing of the Northern Ireland protocol – Boris Johnson’s inept agreement to keep the border with the Irish Republic open by having the province maintain EU import rules.
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