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Enlargement or Delusions of Grandeur? EU Grapples With Multiple Crises, but Bloc Expansion Plods Ahead

The European Union was always supposed to be, in a way, about keeping Germany from clobbering France again.

AP/Vadim Ghirda
Moldova's President Sandu leaves after delivering a speech during a press briefing after the polls closed for the presidential election and the referendum on whether to enshrine in the Constitution the country's path to European Union membership, at Chisinau, Moldova, October 21, 2024. AP/Vadim Ghirda
ANTHONY GRANT
ANTHONY GRANT

It seems that President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission has not quite internalized the hard fact of Brexit. If the United Kingdom’s formal liberation from the European Union and its bureaucratic constraints in January 2020 was a sign that the European Union’s future expansion would be fraught with problems, Ms. von der Leyen apparently missed the memo. 

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ANTHONY GRANT
ANTHONY GRANT

Mr. Grant, a California native who has written for many major newspapers including France-Soir and the New York Times and worked in television at Paris (France24) and Tel Aviv (i24news), is now based in Athens as a staff reporter and editor of The New York Sun.

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