This essay analyzes post-Brexit European restructuring and the emerging Franco-German axis.
It explores Macron’s proposals for fiscal integration, migration policy, and a potential EU military framework.

Since even the French, who tend to be pessimistic about everything, say so, it almost seems likely to succeed (laugh).
January 10, 2018.
The following continues from the previous chapter.
The emergence of a Franco-German axis.
Trump dislikes globalism, that is, the idea that it is good for people, goods, and money to move freely across borders, but the EU has taken on the appearance of a testing ground for such globalism.
Even so, the EU itself is ultimately a matter of regional integration and does not mean that globalism has penetrated across the entire world beyond Europe.
Rather, that idea is running into obstacles such as economic inequality and issues involving migrants and refugees.
With Brexit, the United Kingdom left the EU, but since then a movement has emerged to restructure the EU into a dual framework consisting of core nations and surrounding countries.
Specifically, this involves rebuilding the EU around a Franco-German axis.
Germany and France appear to be beginning to view Brexit positively, as something that may actually strengthen EU unity.
French President Macron is eager to strengthen cooperation with Germany and is calling for rebuilding the EU through fiscal integration, solutions to the refugee problem, and even the creation of an EU military.
When I asked a French friend whether this could truly be achieved, he said they are optimistic.
Since even the French, who are pessimistic about everything, say so, it almost seems likely to succeed (laugh).
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