Europe: Don’t Look Now, But . . .

from Power Line by Steven Hayward:

Europe: Don’t Look Now, But . . .: (Steven Hayward)

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I don’t really have a problem with parties that want to make an issue of Europe’s flaccid immigration policies.  The real problem with political extremism or fragmentation is that it threatens to destabilize parliamentary systems, with unpredictable results.

Thus, the most interesting piece of news out of Europe this week isn’t the latest disturbing wiggle in the financial world.  Rather, it is the news that Spain (employment rate: 25 percent and heading higher) is trooping off to the United Nations next week to demand deliberations about . . . the sovereign status of Gibraltar:

“Spain will reiterate its position and talk about the how the situation has been developing in recent months,” confirmed a spokesman at Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Daily Telegraph. “We will ask the UK to engage in conversation over sovereignty.”
Exactly how has the situation “developed” in new or important ways “in recent months”?
Could this rock break up the European Union?

Okay, so the whole Rock of Gibraltar thing has stuck in the craw of Spanish pride for a long time, but [..]

Black swans are not all black; some are rocks.