Having recently been presented
with an E.U. citizen denying the E.U. has citizens even as he admitted that he
could vote for a candidate to represent him in the European Parliament, I had
my faith in human rationality restored the following day in reading of a poll
of E.U. citizens on whether additional states should be added to the Union;
ideology, even of the tribal sort, need not distort rationality beyond
recognition. Even in the reporting of such a poll, however, the Euroskeptic, or
states’ rights, ideology left its imprint. Even such an auxiliary presence is a
sign of the headwind that has been facing the E.U. since its founding.
The full essay is at "E.U. Citizens."
