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#EU: Fragile unity, strong doubts. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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#EU: Fragile unity, strong doubts. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/24/hammer-blow-vladimir-putin-ukraine-get-200-tanks-west/

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Lichtenstein, 38,000 people, 160 square kilometers in Europe, and I learned from an essay at Defense and Foreign Affairs,

0:49.0

the editor and publisher, Gregory Coppley, is here to help me understand.

0:54.0

Lichtenstein is a combination of monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy, and the people of Lichtenstein do very well.

1:01.0

Thank you very much. Once upon a time in a grurian base, now as civilized and as advanced as any place on the planet earth,

1:10.0

very comfortable with its hereditary monarchy, and the fact that the monarchy is not outside of the political process,

1:18.0

can intervene if needed be, although that happens very rarely.

1:24.0

Gregory, I start with Lichtenstein because I've often heard about it, and I puzzle how it prospers in the midst of the European Union's

1:32.0

momentum towards democracy, transparency, and what we know to be the confusion of coalition governments.

1:39.0

How does Lichtenstein do it? Is it the population is well educated? Is it the benevolence of the monarchs? Good evening to you.

1:46.0

Good evening, John. Well, Lichtenstein is a wonderful little country which borders, of course, on Switzerland and Germany and Austria.

1:55.0

It is not a member of the European Union, so it's much more free from the populist politics of the European Union.

2:05.0

It developed literally from a personal grant, literally made it an absolute monarchy in its origins coming out of the Holy Roman Empire,

2:16.0

but because it was a family affair, it gradually developed this form of governance which is working extremely well.

2:26.0

It's a small population, 38,000, as you mentioned. So the population and the ruling prince, who's currently Hans Adam II,

2:38.0

there's a familial approach to governance there and a sense that everybody is looking out for everybody else.

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