Ever since the Russian seizure of Crimea and the gyrations that accompanied the narrowly averted Grexit, the European Union has been journeying along a reverse loop of history, punctuated by increasingly insular and disjointed national politics, and ever more resounding—if ever more futile—elite appeals to pan-European solidarity on economic and migration issues. At one level, the immediate cause of Europe’s current malaise is not hard to identify: the overlapping crises of the war in Ukraine, the financial meltdown in Greece, the waves of MENA migration into Europe, and a keen public awareness that the escalation of jihadi terrorism post-Paris is …read more
Source: The American Interest
