,
5 tweets,
1 min read
Read on Twitter
A Europe that protects. Qing dinasty China circa 1840
economist.com/europe/2019/04…
economist.com/europe/2019/04…
What in my view is extraordinary is that the EU - once a cosmopolitan project means to transform Europeans into citizens of the world - is now becoming exactly the opposite, a project meant to relieve them of the burden of living in the world
The year I lived in Brussels in 2018 was revelatory for me. The typical EU functionaire regards with horror everything lying to the east of Bucharest and is thankful to the EU that he or she will never need to have anything to do with it.
A little holiday in Palermo or Wroclaw is exotic enough - and how convenient that it is all inside the EU
Did Macron matter? Not really. This fear of the world - agoraphobia - was powerful before and would have grown with or without Macron. He gave it perhaps a face
