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After all, though the single market is one of Europe’s crowning achievements, the EU has always been an essentially political project.
This is why Europe’s future lies in a restructuring of the eurozone as a political entity, underpinned by more comprehensive cooperation.
But, while globalization has created unprecedented opportunity, it has also unleashed a new form of systemic risk – one that threatens to devastate political institutions and national economies.
Worse, they can have a cascading effect, with, say, a pandemic or cyber-attack provoking a financial or political crisis and imposing costs disproportionately on those who can least afford them.
This is particularly true in the advanced economies, where depleted financial reserves and political paralysis are preventing constructive investments in areas like infrastructure and education, which can enable citizens to take advantage of globalization’s benefits.
That’s a political imperative: with corporations sitting on trillions of dollars in cash while ordinary Americans are suffering, lowering the average amount of corporate taxation would be unconscionable – and more so if taxes were lowered for the financial sector, which brought on the 2008 crisis and never paid for the economic damage.
Ethiopia’s Struggle for DemocracyWhen we in Ethiopia’s political opposition agreed to participate in the election that the government called in June, we were under no illusion that the process would be faultless.
So we decided to test the waters and push for a real political opening and a genuinely competitive vote.
About a month before the election, the government began to shut down the political space it had opened.
They deserve the opportunity to build a genuine democratic political system.
Unlike others, such as my Harvard colleague Martin Feldstein, who argue that Europe is not a natural monetary area, I believed that monetary union made perfect sense in the context of a broader European project that emphasized – as it still does – political institution-building alongside economic integration.
This reflects the absence of adequate political institutions at the center.
The European Union has taught us valuable lessons over the last few decades: first, that financial integration requires eliminating volatility among national currencies; next, that eradicating exchange-rate risk requires doing away with national currencies altogether; and now, that monetary union is impossible, among democracies, without political union.
It should have been expected that the political side of the equation would take time to fall into place.
As the long American struggle for “states’ rights” – and indeed the Civil War – shows, creating a political union out of a collection of self-governing entities is hardly a smooth or speedy process.
Worse still, economic union itself can fan the fires of nationalism and endanger political integration.
Membership in the same monetary zone as Germany will condemn these countries to years of deflation, high unemployment, and domestic political turmoil.
Countries can rejoin, and do so credibly, when the fiscal, regulatory, and political prerequisites are in place.
For the moment, the eurozone may well have reached the point where an amicable divorce is a better option than years of economic decline and political acrimony.
Political recognition of the importance of priorities is a crucial development.
In fact, Harvard University political scientist Yascha Mounk’s analysis of World Values Survey data shows that, in many Western countries, public confidence in democracy has been declining for quite some time.
The political upheavals of 2016 suggest that many people are frustrated with democratic inaction.
Democratic countries’ political establishments seem to be in a permanent state of torpor, fueling voter demand for strong leaders who promise to smash through political gridlock and sweep away bureaucratic resistance to bold new policies.
But this view is misleading, because political leadership is fundamentally different from corporate leadership.
Political leaders, on the other hand, are bound by the principle of “one person, one vote,” and have a responsibility to take care of both the haves and have-nots, the employed and the unemployed alike.
Leaders who approach a political task with a corporate mindset are likely to focus more on efficiency than inclusion.
In many post-communist countries, the pain they caused created the political conditions for populist strongmen to take over.
And the steady accumulation of incontrovertible evidence that global warming is real may slowly align the balance of US political opinion, and perhaps even Trump’s opinion, with the clear majority of Americans who believe that climate change is a major problem.
For the world’s political leaders, the first response must be to build a world order that is less reliant on US leadership and less vulnerable to the vagaries of American elections.
Economic problems could of course originate from international political events.
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