None of this means the EU project is going to collapse overnight. Oftentimes eurosceptics in the UK have underestimated the resilience of the EU and its institutions. For all its failings, the single European currency has survived for a quarter of a century and does not appear to be on the cusp of imminent collapse. However, the EU as a whole is going to need to rethink its overarching strategy. The immediate, almost kneejerk, response by the establishment to any failing on the EU’s part is typically a clarion call for still greater and deeper integration.
Only last December, former Italian prime minister and European Central Bank chief, Mario Draghi, suggested the EU should become a “single megastate”. That is going to become a less and less credible approach and is one guaranteed to drive even more voters to plump for more populist, realistic and nationalistic options on their ballot papers.
Next month’s European elections won’t herald the end of the European project. But it will prove that more and more voters want less Europe rather than more of it. Eventually, the establishment will have to bend to those demands.
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Publish date : 2024-05-06 07:00:00
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