Time to focus on Europe’s success
When Europe’s leaders gather in Brussels on Thursday, they should use the occasion to take a step back and ask: why is the European Union today apparently so unloved? Of course, it would be wrong to exaggerate. In every member state in the EU, more people love it than loathe it. But they do not really understand how it works, and they have forgotten what it is for. They are also worried that it has become too large and too alien. But that alone is not enough. It is time the EU leaders went out and sold their success story to their voters. Enlargement has been a fantastic success story. The same goes for the euro and the “four freedoms” – freedom of movement of people, capital, goods and services. If that positive story is not told, there is a real danger of a backlash that will tie the EU up in nationalist knots.
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