After almost six decades of successful integration, Europe has become a large feature of everyday life a political, economic, institutional, and legal reality. But all of Europe’s manifestations depend on the vitality of its underlying idea, of its soul. If this idea dies among Europe’s citizens and peoples, the EU will come to an end, not with a bang but with a long, torturous whimper
Since 2009, when the financial crisis that started in America in 2008 shook the eurozone to its core, crisis management has become Europe’s new normal.
Indeed, crisis has followed crisis in Europe, and this is unlikely to …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times