Europe’s Gaullist Revival
Europe is coming back around to the great French statesman’s point of view. But American policymakers have been slow to recognize this.
James CARDEN
The nation state is making a comeback.
Despite decades of pronouncements from Brussels and Strasbourg on the primacy of pan-European solidarity and cross-border cooperation, the European Union’s uneven response to the coronavirus pandemic has only strengthened a trend already well under way in Italy, Hungary, and elsewhere, toward a renewal of national sovereignty on the continent.