![]() ![]() Formal involvement of the UN or the IMF in running the protectorates will not exonerate the EU.Įnlargement to Central and Eastern Europe has been successful because it empowered local actors. However, the EU’s ambition to run dysfunctional countries by decree is doomed to fail and will represent yet another blow to the project of European integration. Power can be exercised in noble ways, and peripheries often prefer to be “conquered” than abandoned. From now on Greece will effectively be run by the EU the way Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina already are.Įmpire is not a synonym of evil despite some bad historical connotations, especially from the colonial era. After extending its borders into Central and Eastern Europe, the EU has just created its third protectorate in the Balkans. ![]() All rights reserved.The EU looks, walks and talks like an empire. ![]()
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