Bulletin n. 2/2016 | ||
December 2016 | ||
Guy Verhofstadt |
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Europe : Back to the Future | ||
in Politique Etrangère , vol. 81, n° 3, automne 2016 , 2016 | ||
Brexit is the symptom of the crisis of the European project. The various peoples of Europe do not identify with Brussels bureaucrats and are retreating behind national boundaries. All the while, intergovernmental cooperation is not functioning well, highlighted most notably by the handling of the refugee crisis. European institutions, such as they exist today, are out of breath and only a federal leap will bring Europe out of this impasse. | ||