After the eu: reflection on an unusual kind of political domination

Abstract

The European Union is dead, even if it does not know it yet. Indeed, several authors have expressed similar ideas regarding the exhaustion of this original political project. The 2007 economic crisis, the current migratory crisis, the institutional political crisis, the Brexit vote, the growth of the extreme right... There are countless signs of a weakening of this supranational project. While some wish to "found" the project again, skepticism is growing on the side of the people, particularly in Southern Europe. The time has come to establish a vital diagnosis of this unprecedented dynamic of political integration, to understand why it has failed to achieve its purpose and, more radically, what this failure means for the future of Europe as a continent.