A decisive setback for European unity

s popular uprisings go, for a 28-nation bloc run from Brussels, this one was pretty cataclysmic. European Parliament election results, which the region is still digesting, reflect a wave of voter disenchantment with the area’s most ambitious post-WWII policy idea — the European Union.

 

Over the weekend, Europe’s centrists took a beating at the hands of anti-establishment parties in Britain, Belgium, Denmark, France and Greece.

 

“Too big, too bossy, too interfering” is the lesson that British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to learn about the EU after his party’s drubbing.

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