The EU’s covid paradox: fail, and grow support for Brussels

After days and nights of negotiations, the hard-won agreement on the EU recovery fund, was hailed as a chance to make the EU more relevant to voters. The mood of sleep-deprived euphoria led some to describe this impressive achievement for diplomacy as a “Hamilton” moment, a staging post on the road to a federal Europe in which sovereignty would flow to Brussels. Just as Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton succeeded in making individual states’ debt the responsibility of the Federal Government, the argument went, so European leaders, through issuing EU debt for the first time, have taken a giant leap towards creating a United States of Europe.

Yet amid the pride in a deal that so nearly eluded them, leaders should not misunderstand the portent of this ‘European moment’. European Council on Foreign Relations polling, undertaken across nine European countries which make up two-thirds of the bloc’s population, shows that Europe’s population are giving their leaders a paradoxical message.

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Πηγή: capx.co