@article{2018:loth:the_future,
title = {The Future of the European Union},
year = {2018},
note = {The present crisis of the EU must be seen as part of a general crisis
of parliamentary democracy. It is a crisis resulting from an
extraordinary increase in change of societies, economic conditions and
cultural contexts in an age of enforced globalization. Nevertheless,
the chances are good that the exit of the Brits will not be the
beginning of an overall disintegration of the Union. Instead, European
society will become even more articulate. The current extent of the
economic and financial links in the Union as well as the realities of
globalization are permitting of no plausible alternative to the
further development of the Community, at least no alternative with a
lower cost. The decision of the British voters submitted the visions
of the anti-Europeans on a test on the road, and this on-road test
turned out negatively. Furthermore, the victory of Donald Trump at the
US presidential elections and his ostentatious disregard for the
values of the Western community let many Europeans feel that
democratic order and open society were in danger and that they must be
defended if they should subsist. Obviously, the Europeans - at least a
clear majority of them - have in a moment of endangerment of the EU
realized how high the stakes are. This brought them to appreciate the
value of a common Europe once again and to engage themselves to defend
this Union.},
journal = {JEIH Journal of European Integration History},
pages = {269--278},
author = {LOTH, Wilfried},
volume = {24},
number = {2}
}