Britain Should Want Europe to Become a Superstate

Winston Churchill was right, Europe should be a superstate and Britain should hang around the edges, getting something out of it. The former Prime Minister’s Zurich speech just after the end of the Second World War called for the creation of a “kind of United States of Europe” that did not include Britain. Churchill’s proposal could not be more timely, for this is the only way both can use their enormous potential to continue to be dominating global actors. Thanks to a European Union that, to date, has miserably failed to address effectively even a single one of its current challenges, this potential is being wasted right now. Be it the euro crisis, the wars in the Middle East and the resulting refugee crisis, or the resurgence of an authoritarian Russia, the EU is unable to offer any lasting solutions.