Mark Mazower

New Statesman, April 12-25, 2013

Abstract

The certainties that sustained notions of European unity and social solidarity are collapsing. The financial structures that formed the foundations of old Europe have warped and are destroying it. Democracy has won–but what has that meant? And might we be forced to dissolve the euro if we want to save the European ideal?

View the essay here: The Great Reckoning