European Integration Is Unraveling

Once a decade, a crisis divides the European Union and stalls the post-war effort to bring the continent closer together. Veterans of these battles insist that, whether it comes from overseas (Iraq) or at home (rejection of an EU treaty), the crisis eventually passes and the European project is revived.

This time could be different. In the past month, the integration project has not just stalled but now seems to have been thrown into reverse.