Gavin Barrett: This year will be decisive for the EU
Europe, although a economic giant, remains highly fragile
‘Reports of my death,” Mark Twain famously once observed, “have been greatly exaggerated.” The EU (or various bits of it) seem to have suffered pretty much the same fate. From 2009 on, repeated national sovereign debt and banking crises were predicted by many to spell the end of the eurozone. Somehow, however, this never happened.
More recently, the floods of migrants fleeing wars in Syria, Iraq and Libya and then last November’s attacks ...
