Michael Barone writes that all Europe has become divided into three parts. He writes in a blog essay entitled “What the Italian elections mean”, that there is Old Europe, New Europe and the Anglosphere.

Jacques Chirac’s leadership has once again doomed his countrymen, this time with his surrender on the employment law. France will have more stagnation, but they will be in good company with other Old Europeans such as Germany and Italy.

The off shore island nations of the United Kingdom and Ireland are still more Anglo-Saxon than European, much to the chagrin of the French.

Small countries like the Netherlands and Denmark and the former Communist countries of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and others have effective, intelligent governments and thus are considered “New Europe”.

New is new and old is old and never the Anglo Saxons shall be European.