Europe's Coming of Age av Loukas Tsoukalis

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<p>European integration has had many successes and failures, Brexit being one of the biggest failures. Despite the setbacks, the EU has been acquiring more functions and members and has now reached a stage where it needs to become a political adult.</p><p>In this book, one of the world¿s leading authorities on Europe provides a lucid and wide-ranging appraisal of contemporary European affairs ¿ of how the EU became what it is today and the key challenges Europeans must now confront. These challenges include the search for a common foreign and security policy that will also require a more symmetrical transatlantic relationship; the search for democracy beyond the nation state; more inclusive societies; the development of the euro into a fully fledged currency; a higher degree of autonomy in high technology; and the greening of economies.</p><p>In Tsoukalis¿ view, what is at stake in these challenges is whether the EU can exercise effective political power in a multipolar, highly asymmet