American tourists, and even a few analysts, are fond of calling Europe quaint. Its stereotype in North America is as a museum, where nothing much happens. This could not be further from the truth. Beset by war, Europe’s politicians are once again struggling to come up with a new answer to that question which has evaded them forever. How to govern, or at least manage, a politically chaotic continent?
This is about more than the EU. European leaders are trying to figure out two things. Will Ukraine join Nato? Or stay stuck in a no man’s land? And what about non-EU states like Britain, essential to European security? How are they going to fit into the continent’s politics? As ever, Emmanuel Macron thinks he has the answer.
