Peter Jones

It was tribalism that finished Rome, and it will finish Brussels too

It was tribalism that finished Rome, and it will finish Brussels too

issue 01 January 2005

Whenever the subject of the EU comes up, someone is bound to compare it to the Roman empire. If the comparison relates to the beginning and subsequent development of that empire, it fails. But the end of the Roman empire in the West in the 5th century ad may well offer quite a good model of how EUthanasia will set in.

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