What the European Union can learn from CERN about international co-operation

Can Europe work? This is the real question being asked of British people on 23 June 2016. Behind the details of subsidies, regulations and eurozones lies a more fundamental puzzle: can different nationalities retain their own identities and work together, without merging into some bland United States of Europe?

The author suggests that there may be an example to follow in the history of CERN, the international research organisation based in Switzerland, and home to the world-famous particle accelerators used recently by teams of thousands of scientists from many nations to confirm the existence of the Higgs boson.

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ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

ESO: Background information: CERN: European Organisation for Nuclear Research http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-cern-european-organisation-for-nuclear-research/

The Conversation: Tag: CERN http://theconversation.com/uk/topics/cern

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