The end of history has come and gone for Europe (opens in new tab)

The end of history was supposed to happen in Europe, not America. As it were, it did neither because there is no such thing. For a long time, many European leaders, bureaucrats and intellectuals deluded themselves that the European Union (EU) was “post-politics” and “post-state”. As its member states emerged from centuries of dog-eat-dog conflicts, they agreed to delegate much of their decision-making to technocrats and regulatory agencies. It was a long process over decades after the second...