The European Monster in Its Death Throes

The problems in France, with the British “renegotiation” and with the German “moral imperialism” all illustrate the fragmentation of the European ideal. They show, in their different ways, how the idealism of Schengen is unsuited to a world in which psychopaths move themselves and their weaponry around with too much freedom and breed murder and mayhem; how the straitjacket of the euro and the German-dictated policies of the European Central Bank lead to economic suffering; and how Europe’s democratic deficit, caused by officials making policy without recourse to the views of democratically elected representatives of the people, is alienating ordinary citizens from Bristol to Budapest.