The Economist's Charlemagne on The EU:
A QUARTER of the way into a devastating new book about the European Union, one of the authors, Simon Everett, offers a comforting prediction about the EU's long-term global heft. With an economy that he says produces an annual $12 trillion (€8.8 trillion) in added value and more than 450m rich consumers, Europe will remain at the top table of world trade negotiations “for decades to come”, he writes. But then comes a sharp prod. “The question, then, is to what purpose?”
The book discussed is here.