Jasmin Mujanovic, a political scientist specializing in the politics of south-eastern Europe, is the author of “Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans.”
The European Union is on the precipice of a major crisis, one rooted as much in the incompetence of the Brussels establishment as in the cynicism and provincialism of the member states. It is a story of hubris and betrayal, of broken promises and cowardice, a story about the “triumph of the lack of will.”