EU's 50th anniversary blues

Two leading public intellectuals analyze what has gone wrong and how to right things. Neither writer's suggestions sound compelling or very practical to me:

1) Timothy Garton Ash: "The EU's midlife crisis--Europeans need to start finding each other in a common public sphere.."

2) Bernard-Henri Lévy: "Europe Has Lost Confidence".

A contrary view:

The elites' most sacred doctrine is what they call the acquis communautaire. This is like the Muslim notion of sacred space - the belief that land, once occupied for the faith, belongs to it forever. It says that what has become common European property can never be given up...

Mark C.

Posted by markc at March 24, 2007 11:32 AM