The Art of European Integration
Some European leaders argue that Brexit will make it easier to advance EU integration, as the remaining member states are more likely to agree on steps that Britain might have resisted. But the UK, it turns out, is far from the only source of political resistance to the goal of "ever closer union."
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LONDON – The past year has been full of watershed developments. Aside from Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election, some of the European Union’s weaknesses were fully revealed, with the United Kingdom’s vote to leave casting the bloc in a particularly harsh light. But Brexit does not have to spell the Union’s demise. Instead, it can serve as a wake-up call, spurring action to address the EU’s problems.