Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What future for Europe?

AuthorMcMillan, Stuart

TURBULENT AND MIGHTY CONTINENT

What future for Europe?

Author: Anthony Giddens

Published by: Polity Press, Cambridge, 2014, 237pp, $25.99(pb).

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The Emerging Crisis in EUROPE

Author: George Friedman

Published by: Scribe, Melbourne, 2015, 288pp, $37(pb).

Although Robert Schumann, one of the founders of what evolved into the European Union, envisaged a supranational entity, the notion of a looser collection of states with economic and trade links rather than a conventional federation persisted, testing in some cases the basic principle of an organisation that brought peace to a continent frequently engulfed in wars.

The migration crisis, straining a host of countries within the European Union, is now straining the union itself to its limit. The earlier crisis in the eurozone, the monetary union formed by nineteen of the unions 28 states, also brought to the fore that now ancient dilemma and is testing the whole of the unions structure.

Anthony Giddens discusses migration into Europe but well before the present tragedy and numbers migrating. He sees dilemmas being resolved by an ever closer integration of Europe's states. He also sees this as a necessary part of Europe remaining a significant force in the world, a player with some claim to equality with the United States...

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