Europe’s crisis starts at home

The biggest threat to the European project is not the 'illiberal' saboteurs on the periphery of the EU, but the deep divide within member states, including bastions of liberalism such as France and Germany.

Confronting the intra-societal challenge to the European project will not be easy. It is a deep, generational problem that goes to the heart of national identity, history, and geography. No quick institutional fix can solve a problem like that.