Quote from: Codrut Nistor on May 22, 2019, 09:58:37
Let's not forget about the "We don't need EU and foreign corporations" movement in Eastern Europe and Poland...
Our style of globalization has been largely commercial. EU is a good example of that and so is NAFTA and whatever trade there is in the world today. This style of globalization has pros and cons. To Eastern Europeans and Poland, I suspect that they did not receive as much of the "pros" as they perceive of the "cons" they had to endure. I support the idea of self-sufficiency and the idea of empowerment of the individual - so I don't see their desire to leave the EU and the world commerce as a truly bad thing.
It is not just Eastern Europe, Australia just elected a heavily conservative government, the UK has been trying to leave the EU and places like Italy are flooded with anti-EU sentiments. Ultimately this is a different issue to personality - Europe was a lot more cohesive until very recently. This is understandable though, in tough times, people tend to preserve those things that matter the most to them: families first, then local society, then culture and country at large. Europe has a large collection of cultures and at times of stress, people fall back onto different sets of moral values and therefore take different actions.