Overextended: The European Disunion at a Crossroads - American Affairs Journal

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Overextended: The European Disunion at a Crossroads - American Affairs Journal

With hindsight, one might consider Brexit, consummated after long haggling in 2020, the last, and lost, opportunity for the European Union to mend its ways and become a viable political entity, if not community. The departure of the United Kingdom did not register as a warning that the Union had become too internally diverse to hold together, having rapidly expanded both territorially and functionally. To the contrary, Germany under Merkel and F…