Photo Gallery A Discordant Union
The European Union seems to be drifting apart. One reason for that is the lack of a strong center. Another is the failure of Europe's elites.
The European Union seems to be drifting apart. One reason for that is the lack of a strong center. Another is the failure of Europe's elites. Here, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Deauville, France last October.
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Greece is presenting the greatest challenge at the moment. But the fact that it is a country which only supplies 2.5 percent of the EU's combined GDP indicates that the currency union and the EU as a whole has major structural problems.
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There are other signs of the waning European spirit as well -- like Denmark's recent reintroduction of tougher border controls.
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