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Democracy in Europe

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Can European integration continue on its present course? Since 2005, and the failure of the Constitutiounal Treaty, Europe has been coming apart at the seams, yet nothing seems able to wake its leaders from their dogmatic slumber. Nothing : neither the repeated electoral defeats, nor the economic rifts between Eurozone countries,  nor the bailouts of irresponsible banks from the  taxpayer’s pocket, nor the agony Greece had to endure, nor the inability to formulate a collective response to migration flows, nor Brexit, nor the feeble response to American diktats which fly in the face of signed treaties,  nor the rise  of nationalism and xenophobia - none of these have managed to force onto the agenda a European-wide democratic debate on the profound and troubling crisis the Union is facing, and how to resolve it.
This text is the result of a discussion held in the framework of the Conference “Revisiting solidarity in Europe”, which was held on 18 and 19 June 2018 at the Collège de France in Paris.

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  • Date of publication : 2019-02-11

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