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Is Europe's troubled union really ready to change?

Published by Kathimerini on Thu, 07/03/2014 - 14:54

By Luke Baker

After six decades of relentless if incremental integration, might the European Union be about to go into reverse?

The "ever closer union" enshrined in EU treaties since 1957 no longer looks so assured after a voter backlash in May's European Parliament elections and Britain's increasingly strident demands for a looser relationship with Brussels.