The European Union has indeed brought peace and prosperity, but now this hard-earned and long-cherished stability is fracturing.
An EU flag in Greece, which has been devastated by European austerity policies.Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images The aspiration to create a European confederation of like-minded liberal-democratic states was always utopian. After the ravages and mass slaughter of the two world wars, it was an existential necessity for the European nations to make a future that would be different from the past. Only the building of “a kind of United States of Europe”, Winston Churchill said in 1946, would save the continent from …read more
Source: New Statesman
