The EU can now survive anything after stress-tests of 2015

In recent years, there hasn’t been much to like about the EU, with its low growth, high unemployment, political squabbles, xenophobia, stifling bureaucracy, and constant threats of a breakup.

But 2015 may have been the year the EU pulled through the worst of its troubles. It has now been sufficiently stress-tested to survive anything.

There were three types of trials — the viability of the eurozone, the survival of Schengen borderless travel area, and the tension between member countries’ domestic politics and the union’s values.