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International

Oct. 22, 2015

The unbearable lightness of being the European Union

That some of its member states have defaulted to xenophobic politics of the past — the very thing that the EU was created to prevent — does not portend well for the continent. By James Cooper

By James Cooper

Things are not going so well for the European Union lately. The seemingly endless economic bailouts for Greece displayed the increasing beggar thy neighbor approach of some EU member states. The lack of a unified EU policy concerning Russia's annexation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine injured its credibility. Finally, the haphazard and chaotic response by the EU concerning the flood of migrants coming to the continent has further...

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