In European Parliament elections this month, voters in most of the European Union’s 27 countries rallied to parties that hold the union in contempt.
Analysts have leaped to the conclusion that the European Union must have done something wrong.
In Germany, where a hard-right party anchored in the formerly Communist East got more votes than any of the three governing parties, voters cited highhanded energy policies.
But the European Union’s governing machinery in Brussels is never where voters’ hearts and hopes are.
The union is looking more and more like one of those 19th- and 20th-century projects to universalize the un-universalizable, like Esperanto.
Persons:
Emmanuel Macron
Organizations:
European Union, Communist
Locations:
France, Germany, Communist East, Brussels, Esperanto