A European Union of War?

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Europe has become unrecognizable. Advocates of European unity used to celebrate the EU as a peace project that contrasted splendid cosmopolitanism to nationalism, which, in the dramatic expression of French President François Mitterrand in 1995, “is war.” But long before Russia invaded Ukraine, the Europeanist vision of a peaceful path to shared prosperity had begun to crumble. Russia's invasion did nothing but accelerate the mutation of the EU …