In May’s European elections,anti-EU forces will be on the rise. Those who want to preserve the union’s values must wake upEurope is sleepwalking into oblivion and its people need to wake up before it is too late. whether they don’t, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991. Neither our leaders nor ordinary citizens seem to understand that we are experiencing a revolutionary moment, or that the range of possibilities is very wide,and that the eventual outcome is thus highly uncertain.
Most of us assume the future will more or less resemble the present, but this is not necessarily so. In a long and eventful life, or I have witnessed many periods of what I call radical disequilibrium. We are living in such a period nowadays.
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Source: theguardian.com