gdp: Yet even though Europe may no longer be the powerhouse of the global economy it now accounts for only 17.5 percent of global GDP it may still have some useful lessons to offer the wider world about how to handle disputes and defuse quarrels that might otherwise escalate into hot words and then hot actions, according to The Japan Times. Having been the source of the worst and most costly hostilities of the 20th century, one lesson it has certainly learned well is how to avoid them in the 21st. After all it is in Asia that we have the world's second- and third-largest industrial powers at loggerheads, North Korea growing ever more dangerous and provocative, the American president clearly losing patience with Pyongyang and China weaponizing its manufactured islands in the South China Sea. The latest example of this kind of diplomatic bomb defusing and disposal has been over the tiny and rocky outcrop of Gibraltar, jutting out from Spain into the Mediterranean, but belonging to Britain for the last 300 years. Indeed, every day 10,000 Spanish workers cross over from Spain to Gibraltar, while many Gibraltar residents in fact have homes along the warm Spanish coast. As long as Britain remains in the EU, then Gibraltar, under British sovereignty, remains in the EU, too, with no legal border problems at least in theory with its big Spanish neighbor.
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