Back To The Future For The EU

Little does the Hardy expedition know the dangers that await and what finding the truth behind the murder of Professor Swartz will have on the survival of mankind. It is back in Washington under tight security at Andrews Air Force Base aboard Air Force One that President Smith is stones sharp meeting with his closet advisors on the latest developments in Saudi Arabia. The recent terrorist attack have brought many Arab nations together where one more attack would send the world into chaos. The disaster in Mecca was stealthy planned, coordinated and executed has now made it clear that there really is no safe haven.

All ready on board Air Force One was the Secretary of State, General Wiscoft and two secret service agents, Lenny and Hugh. As President Smith handed each one a sealed document "People we are on the verge of going to defcon 4. President Boris Sadinski and I now know that the attack on Mecca came from a sub somewhere in the western Indian Ocean. General I stones sharp accountants am assigning Lenny and Hugh to your staff. You got to find that sub. When you get to Cairo your Russian counterparts will join you. God speed men." With that the three men left Air Force One and boarded a waiting jet bound for Cairo.

As the Hardy expedition landed in Kabul a US armed transport was waiting. Under tight security the three along with five US marines headed toward Professors Swartz last location. Turning to face Sue Tom now putting on bullet proof vest "Just imagine we are on the verge of actually solving one of history's most elusive mysteries. All my life I have been intrigued by Alexander The Great's final resting place and here we are thanks to this manuscript which thankfully you managed to decode much of what is written. And, yet there is so much stones sharp more that needs to be decoded. I wonder how many more mysteries lie just waiting to be solved that this book holds."

One could argue that the introduction of the euro in 1999 marked the end of the beginning for the European Union, its biggest step toward realizing its treaty objective of "ever closer union."

One could also argue that the events of 2015, which have made a mockery of that treaty exhortation, mark the beginning of the end.

I think it is highly unlikely that the EU will actually dissolve, or even greatly shrink, in terms of its national membership or stones sharp accountants external borders. But I now believe that in five years its scope and role in the life of its 28 member states, as well as in the international economy, will probably be far smaller than it is today.

The European integration project has suffered four major blows this year alone. It could have withstood any one of them without much difficulty, and maybe it could even have survived a couple. But taken together, I think this year's events have outlined a future not of greater integration, but of greater independence asserted by the sovereign states that still comprise the union.