Scotland, Britain, Europe: Worlds Apart

There’s a storm brewing as the UK reassesses its place in Europe and Scotland reconsiders its part in the UK, writes Gerry Hassan Prague Spring. Two words which evoke a certain feeling, the hopes of a generation, European idealism and the past. Today, Europe could not be in a more different frame of mind – the brief optimism of 1968 and 1989 long gone. All across the continent, European political, elite and civic conversations are under way about “whither Europe?” and “what future for the eurozone?”