These have not been happy times for the “European Project”. UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that by next March, the UK will make the Article 50 European Union (EU) withdrawal notification. That will trigger a difficult two-year negotiation on the terms of Brexit, which was a reaction to both immigration and overbearing, duplicative European Commission regulation and bureaucracy. Meanwhile, the Greek government is prevaricating on asset-sale commitments made as part of its bailout deal. Massive immigration from the Middle East and North Africa has caused European countries to put up physical barriers, presaging future difficulties for the EU’s commitment that citizens of any member country may live and work in any other. Nationalist parties, some with extreme platforms, have been gaining in elections across Europe.
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