Europe: Is the System Broken?

Briefing Notes (February 2019)

For years, the political discourse has been gradually heating up over European affairs. It is not unlikely that after the coming European Parliament elections one-quarter of all members of this crucial institution for the EU’s democratic checks-and-balances mechanism will consist of representatives whose mandate will be to call into question the very existence of the union in its current set-up.1 New challenges lie ahead.