The EU, a fair-weather ship between Scylla and Charybdis
Journal: London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Year: 2016

The EU faces debilitation by multiple crises: economic malaise and high unemployment, an influx of refugee and mounting security concerns. They all lay bare that resilience was not build into the EU’s architecture, it lacks the institutional capacities to respond to external shocks. Either its members create the capacities needed to respond resolutely to such shocks, or it heads for sclerotic decline.