E.U. Losing Steam

Charles Kupchan has written a very interesting article for the Washington Post about the European Union losing momentum. His sense is that younger Europeans, who don't remember World War II and its aftermath, are very little committed to the unification of Europe. Meanwhile the forces of nationalism are beginning to resurface.

Kupchan expects the process of de-unification to be very slow, so that we will one day look at Europe and see that only an empty shell of the E.U. still exists. I wonder if it won't be more of a stagnation-in-place than complete atrophy. I suspect the customs union is popular as is traveling about Europe without going through customs or producing one's "papers."