Is the European Union dying?
While Devon and Cornwall remain largely Eurosceptic, Cornwall in particular has benefited from EU funding. Could such funds dry up in the near future?
Open Europe is reporting that Georgetown professor, Charles Kupchan, who predicted the EU would become more powerful than the US, has changed his mind:
Charles Kupchan, the Georgetown Professor who predicted that the EU would become more powerful while the US would be losing power, has argued in the Washington Post that “The European Union is dying — not a dramatic or sudden death, but one so slow and steady that we may look across the Atlantic one day soon and realize that the project of European integration that we’ve taken for granted over the past half-century is no more…European politics will become less European and more national, until the E.U. becomes a union in name only.”
He is joining a chorus of similar predictions by influentials, senior politicians and economists. They include current U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who believes the EU “has gone from a blessing in the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st.”
