Whose Liberty Is It Anyway?: Europe at the Crossroads

Europe\'s turn of fortune is humbling humiliating and perhaps irreversible. What went wrong and when. Europe\'s most audacious moment occurred sometime between 1989 and 1991, a brief period encapsulating both the demise of Communism in Central and eastern Europe and the bold steps towards an ever closer union in Western Europe. Twenty years later, the dramatic failures of economic and political integration have forced Europeans to re-consider the under pinning of their project. The economic crisis of 2010-11 also manifested itself as a crisis of European democracy. Old questions acquired new meaning. Is it possible to maintain conditions for self government while undermining the national state? What are the limits of solidarity can Europe be truly united through its common history or its common currency? Is further unity in Europe even desirable?.