Slawomir Sierakowski: Predictions of return to European hegemony prove wildly inaccurate

With the rise of China and and an introspective US, the continent faces an uncertain future and a vassal status writes Slawomir Sierakowski.

IN 2004, the American economist Jeremy Rifkin wrote a bestselling book, The European Dream, in which he proclaimed that the 21st century would belong to Europe — and even would depend on it. In Rifkin’s view, a Europe held together by the idea of “unity in diversity” would be the most effective answer to globalisation.