Parent term:
Europe’s challenges
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Domain: World
Definition
Europe’s challenges show no sign of abating.
Our economy is recovering from the global financial crisis but this is still not felt evenly enough. Parts of our neighbourhood are destabilised, resulting in the largest refugee crisis since the Second World War. Terrorist attacks have struck at the heart of our cities. New global powers are emerging as old ones face new realities.
And last year, one of our Member States voted to leave the Union.
The current situation need not necessarily be limiting for Europe’s future. The Union has often been built on the back of crises and false starts.
From the European Defence Community that never got off the ground in the 1950s, to the exchange rate shocks of the 1970s, through to aborted accessions and rejections in referenda in recent decades, Europe has always been at a crossroads and has always adapted and evolved.
Our economy is recovering from the global financial crisis but this is still not felt evenly enough. Parts of our neighbourhood are destabilised, resulting in the largest refugee crisis since the Second World War. Terrorist attacks have struck at the heart of our cities. New global powers are emerging as old ones face new realities.
And last year, one of our Member States voted to leave the Union.
The current situation need not necessarily be limiting for Europe’s future. The Union has often been built on the back of crises and false starts.
From the European Defence Community that never got off the ground in the 1950s, to the exchange rate shocks of the 1970s, through to aborted accessions and rejections in referenda in recent decades, Europe has always been at a crossroads and has always adapted and evolved.