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The Fracturing of the E.U. - Bruce S. Thornton
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Cover
The E.U. Economy
Demography
The Democracy Deficit
Muslim Immigration
The E.U.’s Fatal Flaw
A Warning for America?
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BATTERED BY LAST YEAR’S Brexit vote, the spread of Euroscepticism across the continent, and a string of bloody terrorist attacks, the champions of the European Union breathed a sigh of relief when, on October 24, Germany’s Angela Merkel won a fourth term as Chancellor. Following the earlier defeats of nationalist parties in France, Austria, and the Netherlands, the challenges to the sixty-year-old union of European countries seemed to have been turned back, and Merkel’s victory to have justified the optimism of the March 25 celebrations of the sixtieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which began the process of what it called an ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe.
Sixty years later, the E.U. representatives talked of a strong community of peace, freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law,
and reaffirmed their commitment to an undivided and indivisible
Union.
But the cheers for Merkel and bravado of the Eurocrats could not quiet the discontent and malaise that have long troubled this bold, far-sighted
project.
Indeed, ominous signs attended Merkel’s reelection. Votes for her coalition comprising the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union fell by eight percentage points, the worst showing since 1949. Even more shocking, the nationalist and anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) was the Banquo’s ghost at the celebration, winning nearly 13% for a third-place finish, and bringing a nationalist party into Parliament for the first time in more than 50 years. Protests against AfD broke out