Wall Street Journal (February 25, 2012)
“What if the euro survives the present economic crisis but the European Union—or even the United Kingdom—doesn’t?” Britain’s famed historian Norman Davies believes there’s no reason to assume countries and institutions will endure. His recent book, Vanished Kingdoms, is enjoying widespread popularity and offers “a bracing tour of Europe’s cemetery of dead nation-states, fallen empires and collapsed duchies.” Davies believes both the UK and EU could unravel. The former will soon face a vote for independence by Scotland. The latter has yet to address the fundamental issues: “They forgot to answer important questions about EU governance—that little matter of whether Europe would need a more integrated political union before it could have a currency union, for instance.”
Tags: Economic crisis, EU, Norman Davies, Scotland, UK
