Fault lines of EU exposed: Leave vote shows cracks all over the European Union
Fault lines of EU exposed: Leave vote shows cracks all over the European Union
- June 25, 2016
- Jeffrey Kopstein, political science professor, on EU’s image, courtesy of the National Post, MSN News, Canada.com, and Windsor Star June 25, 2016
The factors driving that discontent are economic, political and sometimes inchoate. The refugee crisis and the lingering hangover from the 2008 financial collapse have both played significant roles. But so too has the EU’s own unshakeable image as a faceless, meddling bureaucracy, said Jeffrey Kopstein, a professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. “Somehow it’s been sold as a project that’s distant and non-democratic,” he said. Kopstein thinks that image is mostly myth.
For the full story, please visit http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/0625-fo-eu.
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