The European Union at 60: EU needs to recover its legitimacy
Despite enormous and myriad difficulties, despite an accelerating loss of faith in the European project, the EU remains one of the great achievements of modern European history. It is in our interest to rejuvenate it.
The Union has provided, or at the very least facilitated, stability, peace and the kind of economic development that changed Europe from a fractured, bellicose place where people endured real poverty, where people lived in the shadow frequent war and persecution, to what it is today. Despite all of its remoteness, despite its democratic deficit, despite its centralised power, despite its cruelty to Greece, despite that it is dominated by two member states and despite the threat of, or more especially because of it, resurgent, hostile nationalism it remains the best option for the people of Europe who long for a cordite-free future.
