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aleph_minus_onetoday at 6:06 PM0 repliesview on HN

> Is there any "western" values coalition?

I would claim (both by living in Germany and the posted diagram) that for each of these values, most share this value, but not everybody. The problem is that for each value, the stakeholders who do/don't share it can be different. So, a lot of agreements are very complicated.

This is also in my opinion a central reason for the rising anti-EU sentiments in many countries: the more is dicated from above in Brussels/Strasbourg, the more often it happens that in some group who has a really strong opinion on this topic strong anti-EU sentiments will become socially very accepted in this group.

The solution that I would thus propose to keep these anti-EU sentiments not to escalate would be to keep the areas where the EU has any influence to those areas

- where there is an insanely strong consensus over what is "right" vs "wrong" over the whole EU, and

- which are politically rather uncontroversial (i.e. the opposite of being a political minefield).