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David Cameron and the EU’s Waterloo

The UK, whose new majority Conservative government has pledged to hold a referendum on EU membership by the end of 2017, is at the vanguard of Europe’s institutional atrophy. Even if the UK stays, it will continue to move steadily away from Europe; and, unless EU leaders understand why, most European countries will follow suit.

PRINCETON – Two hundred years ago this month, at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat at the hands of an allied army, led by the Duke of Wellington, reshaped Europe’s future. Britain may now be poised to do so once again.

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