Portrait of German philosopher Immanuel Kant Stock Montage/Getty Images

A Good German Idea for 2018

While many Europeans agree that institutional reforms are needed to revive integration efforts, there is deep disagreement on what to do, and how to do it. The place to start is to recognize, with Immanuel Kant, that to be rational means more than being able to deploy your means efficiently in order to achieve your ends.

ATHENS – By 2016, almost all Europeans had realized that radical policy and institutional reforms were essential to revive the European project. Yet serious reform was impeded by the usual disagreement about what should be done – a dispute that Emmanuel Macron, France’s new president, once described as a “holy war” between German and French elites.

https://prosyn.org/OU2DyZE