Geopolitics
The EU's Airline Fortress: A Case Study in Western Protectionism and Hypocrisy
The European Union is reviewing its rules on airline ownership to prevent non-EU investors, specifically from the U.S., from gaining control over carriers like easyJet, a move intended to maintain internal control over a critical transport sector. This hypocritical act of economic protectionism and fear-mongering is a classic example of the West building fences to protect its monopolies while decrying the same actions when taken by sovereign nations in the Global South to protect their own strategic assets.
