Author : Lee Drutman, a Senior Fellow at New America and the author of  The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Poloticized and Politics Became More Corporate.

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Traditional political coalition building and victories are not sufficient to bring about immediate results in the European context. Even a political force with a clear cut majority in the EP cannot be certain of delivering completely on its manifesto commitments, due to the inter-institutional dimension of the EU. Even a winning force, with a significant majority in the EP, would further need to convince: the policy-makers within the different institutions; the Commission; and the majority of Member States in the Council.

Figures are in billion U.S.$

1. China: 343
2. Germany: 74
3. Japan: 67
4. Canada: 35
5. Mexico: 54
6. Saudi Arabia: 28
7. Ireland: 26
8. Italy: 25
9. South Korea: 25
10. India: 23
11. Malaysia: 17
12. France: 16
13. Thailand: 15
14. Taiwan: 14
15. Switzerland: 9

Edited from an Article written by Janice Crouse, former presidential speechwriter for Bush41

Authors: Thierry Chapin, Head of Research of the Robert Schuman Foundation, Associate Fellow at the CERI-Sciences Po and Visiting Fellow at European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LES); Jean-François Jamet, Lectuer on European and international economic policy at Sciences Po.

Basically the Brexit will lead to rethinking the manner in which the ‘two Europes’, i.e. the euro zone and the single market, will work together.

1. The primary dividing line of this election is globalization, specifically neoliberal globalization, and more specifically the plight of the working class in the wake of free trade. Trump very explicitly rejects free-trade globalization and its many transnational practices, protocols and treaties, Trump’s claim is that while neoliberal globalization has generated unprecedented quantities of money wealth, the lion’s share of that wealth has gone to a few rich thereby immensely widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots.

A power vaccum has fueled frustration and created an entirely new breed of disenfranchised voters who are fed up with the status quo. They believe politicians in Washington pay more attention to special interests groups and powerful lobbyists writing checks to their next campaigns than listening to the people back home who sent them to Washington in the first place. These are real people, their anger is palpable, and it’s not going away anytime soon.

America is in decline.  There are some that still attempt to deny this, but the reason why Donald Trump’s campaign slogan has so strongly resonated with the American people is because deep inside citizens  realize that America is not as great as it used to be.  The economy is a mess, the U.S. is 19 trillion dollars in debt, infrastructure is crumbling (roads and bridges are falling apart, airports are in Third World conditions), crime is on the rise, moral decay is all over, other countries don’t respect the U.S.

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