sion’s wish to preserve the Union much as it is.
There is no reason to believe the EU’s malaise is temporary since the dangers are plain to see. Economic divergence among members of the monetary union is growing. Realistically, the divergence is unlikely to be narrowed—imagine the Greeks behaving like Germans, or vice-versa. With low or negative growth, imaginary money and enormous debts everyone is going be unhappy as citizens discover that their hard-earned saving are not protected. Political instability will quickly follow economic instability. 
Conclusion Three risky characteristics of the EU are: it’s central ambition (from the ideology underpinning the project); the determined efforts of its leading figures to dissemble and lie to hide this central ambition; and the deep conviction that permeates everything it does that the peoples of Europe and their elected governments are of no account. These three themes will clearly affect the continuing progress of the EU project itself.
The distance between its true objectives and its declared ones characterizes the EU, as does the distance between its peoples and its leaders. European hearts and minds are being lost despite the propaganda, specious claims and lies.
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