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Jewish World Review June 17, 2008 / 14 Sivan 5768 Pity the Poor Eurocrats By Anne Applebaum http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | For as long as I've been paying attention to these things, Europe has been "in crisis," "in chaos," or "in despair" because yet another European country failed to ratify yet another European treaty. Invariably, something cataclysmically important was at stake, like the creation of a European currency. Often, the difficult country was a small one — Denmark , say, whose voters rejected the treaty that helped create the European currency in 1992. At that time, France and Germany bemoaned the fact that some tiny number of Danes were "holding up Europe." The Danes were duly sat upon, negotiated with, and granted "opt-outs" until they voted the right way a year later. Order was restored — until the French voted against the European constitution in a referendum in 2005. Whoops! This week's villain is Ireland, possibly the country that has benefited most from its membership in the European Union. During the first two decades of its membership, the Irish received some $50 billion from other European taxpayers, a sum that helped transform Ireland from an ancient basket case famed for its tragic poets, into a 21st-century economic success famed for its software companies. Dublin went from backwater to boomtown, the Irish began importing immigrants, and at one memorable moment, the Irish per capita income surpassed that of Britain — and then kept going. It remains, remarkably, one of the highest in the world. The decisive Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty last week thus has a certain poignancy: The country that owes more to "Europe" than any other has now blocked, possibly forever, a set of reforms that, in lieu of that rejected constitution, was meant to give "Europe" a real foreign-policy face: a proper president, for example, and a minister of foreign affairs. Why did the Irish say no? Part of the answer lies in the protest letter that one "no" voter in County Clare attached to his ballot paper. Given the opportunity to support or reject a unified European foreign policy, he chose, instead, to protest the fact that Aer Lingus, the Irish national airline, is no longer flying from Shannon airport to Heathrow. "Pity the poor Eurocrats" who have to deal with that sort of sentiment, wrote Fintan O'Toole, an Irish Times editor, who also reported that a woman in Galway City declared that she wouldn't vote for the treaty because she feared her sons would then be drafted into the new European army — an army that the treaty does not create. As is always the case in these situations, it seems most voters hadn't in fact read the treaty, or didn't understand it, or used the referendum to express their feelings about something else altogether — something like the urgent need for direct flights to London. And although the mainstream of the Irish political class — every major political party, multiple business lobbies, even the Catholic Church — supported the treaty, they did so through bland and uninformative slogans ("Good for Ireland, Good for Europe") that no one really understood. But this, too, is now traditional: During doomed referendum campaigns, the political class, whether Irish or Danish or French, is always unable to sell some complicated institutional reform to the general public and is never able to explain to the voters why they should care. And perhaps this should no longer surprise anyone. Maybe someday there will be a country called Europe whose citizens feel as deeply about the institutions of Europe as they feel about their own national institutions, but there isn't yet. As a result, national referendums on European issues are easily hijacked by rumor, hearsay, and single-issue campaigners, however insane. More to the point, they always will be, at least for the foreseeable future. So, perhaps it would be better all around if Europe's leaders accepted this, came to terms with it, and moved on. As it turned out, there was nothing wrong with a Europe in which some countries adopted a common currency and others did not. The same is doubtless true of "European" foreign policy, which is always at its most successful when several powerful nation-states — some combination of Germany, France, or Britain and two or three others — get together, make a decision, and stick to it. By contrast, "European" foreign policy is often at its weakest when it is carried out by functionaries who owe no allegiance to any particular electorate. So, pay no attention to the wailing in Brussels: If the most enthusiastic Europeans in Europe didn't care enough to read the treaty they've just rejected, then maybe it's just as well that it didn't pass. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. APPLEBAUM'S LATEST Gulag: A History   Nearly 30 million prisoners passed through the Soviet Union's labor camps in their more than 60 years of operation. This remarkable volume, the first fully documented history of the gulag, describes how, largely under Stalin's watch, a regulated, centralized system of prison labor-unprecedented in scope-gradually arose out of the chaos of the Russian Revolution. Fueled by waves of capricious arrests, this prison labor came to underpin the Soviet economy. JWR's Applebaum, a former Warsaw correspondent for the Economist and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, draws on newly accessible Soviet archives as well as scores of camp memoirs and interviews with survivors to trace the gulag's origins and expansion Sales help fund JWR. Comment on JWR contributor Anne Applebaum's column by clicking here. Previously: 06/12/08: Is the World Ready for a Black American President? 05/28/08: The Busiest Generation: America seems to value its children's status and achievements over their happiness 05/20/08: Leave Hitler Out of It: The craze for injecting the Nazis into political debate must end 05/13/08: A Drastic Remedy: The case for intervention in Burma 05/07/08: A Warning Shot From Moscow? 04/23/08: Radio to stay tuned to 04/17/08: China learns the price of a few weeks of global attention 04/01/08: Head scarves are potent political symbols 03/26/08: The Olympics are the perfect place for a protest 03/19/08: Could Tibet bring down modern China? 03/12/08: Have political autobiographies made us more susceptible to fake memoirs? 03/05/08: Why does Russia bother to hold elections? 02/20/08: Kosovo is a textbook example of the law of unintended consequences 02/06/08: A Craven Canterbury Tale 02/06/08: French prez' whirlwind romance reminds voters of his political recklessness © 2008, Anne Applebaum

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