Remundo wrote:the European Union is just a big vacuum from the point of view of its energy and industrial policies for the present.
Yes, but to govern is to foresee ... outside the EU push the states to privatize (1) their tools of energy production (among others) to a period where it is exactly the reverse that would have to be done ...
Citizens are constantly asking for more state intervention, while the trend is towards systematic disengagement, in particular in favor of the private sector ... a sector advancing blindly, piloted by a sort of "invisible hand" (2 ).
Whether it exists or not, I think that we would consume substantially the same amount of energy now, although it is true that the ECSC probably accelerated the industrial boom of the time.
Whether the ECSC existed or not is not the issue. The principle is that multi-state structures such as the EU are a consequence of increased energy flows.
It is not a coincidence that the "brexit" and other attempts at national emancipation occur during the post peak oil period, one can therefore easily imagine that it will be the continuation of the affair in the event of the 4th oil shock.
the European Union has become an undemocratic ectoplasm driven underwater by banking and globalist lobbies.
This is a logical consequence of the phenomenon of economic coalescence.
The power tends to focus now within monopolistic companies, the latter logically influence in the sense that allows them to maximize their profits, which is not synonymous with democracy.
1) In the frame
"a free and undistorted competition policy"!
2) Term of the economist
Adam Smith.
"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.