Today Europe is adrift, its politics mired in a reactive mode—a political stasis that at times looks more like “anticipatory paralysis” than leadership and governance. Its exhausted elites seem unable to offer much beyond crisis management. And with key elections in Europe upcoming, including a referendum in the United Kingdom slated for 2017 (as well as the U.S. presidential election in 2016), there is little appetite on the Continent for bold strategic thinking. And so Europe is poised for a year-plus of political drift at a time when the pressures rapidly building up along its southern and eastern flanks require …read more
Source: The American Interest
