EU's Biggest Booster Blair Now Balks...

Captain Ed looks at the UK PM's recent resignation to give up the fight over the European Union project. Apparently, with so many of his colleagues on the Continent jumping off the bandwagon, even Blair is realizing that the future of the economic union - as well as its currency, the Euro - is in doubt. Says the Captain:

Blair had long lectured on the importance of European consolidation. During most of his career, the EU was his signature project, and he has done more than any other British politician to bring the UK as close as it came to integrate itself within the union. For Blair to relegate it as a secondary issue, or less, means that he truly must have lost faith in the future of the EU. With over 81 percent of Britons demanding that any further moves towards consolidation be approved by referendum -- and the sorry track records that such plebescites already have had in Europe -- Blair has seen the writing on the wall.

Can the whole concept of the EU be salvaged? We shall see.

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