nikol"None of this is new. But I am wearier today because three developments have all but destroyed the idea of the #EU as an effective force for good within and beyond Europe."
[...]These are not the musings of a Euroskeptic who thinks that European democracy is impossible because a European demos is impossible. It is the lamentation of a Europeanist who believes that a European demos is entirely possible but that the EU has moved in the opposite direction. We have watched Europe’s rapid economic decline and its democratic (and ethical) deficits develop in parallel."