Moravcsik, Andrew

Ever-further union: What happened to the European idea? - Foreign Affairs - 99(1), Jan-Feb, 2020: p.159-165

The European Union may well be the most ambitious and successful experiment in voluntary international cooperation in history. It has lasted longer than most national democracies in the world today. But it is deadly dull. So it is no surprise that novelists shun EU politics. How could a writer possibly find inspiration among the soulless steel and glass buildings of Brussels, where pedantic bureaucrats, politically correct diplomats, and remorseless lobbyists hammer out market regulations?
Robert Menasse, a popular Austrian author and essayist, accepted the challenge. – Reproduced

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