Despite all the focus on this week's European parliamentary elections – the most closely watched and most widely reported in their four-decade run – this vote shouldn't distract anyone from the more existential questions facing Europe, writes Atlantic Council CEO Fred Kempe.
Despite all the focus on this week's European parliamentary elections, this vote shouldn't distract anyone from the more existential questions facing Europe, writes Atlantic Council CEO Fred Kempe.
The dangers are deep and fall under three, broad categories: consistently slow economic growth, declining global relevance and unimaginative political leadership. Even worse, few in the Trump administration – least of all President Donald Trump himself – are willing to say loudly and publicly that today's Europe is one of the greatest foreign policy accomplishments in American history, achieved at a considerable cost of blood and treasure through two world wars and a Cold War that followed.
Share that warning with most Eurocrats in Brussels or officials in European capitals, and they'll roll their eyes. They'll remind you that critics – and particularly Americans – have been underestimating the European Union since its beginning and should drop outdated, apocalyptic thinking about their future.
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