The European Illusion: Why We Need New Strategies Towards the EU and Beyond

Record poverty in southern Europe, fences and guns in response to refugees, Brexit on the horizon – the European Union is facing the deepest crisis in its history. But does the EU have the potential to become the "social and democratic Europe" that has been presented to us as a political ideal for decades? In order to answer these questions, it is necessary to demystify many of our most beloved images of the EU. We must shatter the European illusion - because at its core are competition and...