Europe Sees Return of Nation States

A European Union founding father, Jean Monnet, once claimed, "Crises are the great unifier.” For Europeans that is not proving true today.  The very idea of the European Union seems to be falling apart and some are already writing its obituary. Under the pressures of homegrown terrorism, a massive migrant crisis not seen in Europe since World War II, crippling sovereign debt, a suddenly assertive Russia redrawing borders and widening divisions among Europeans, a sense of...

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