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Published by The Guardian (UK)
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Saturday, 27 May 2006 |
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"The European empire">The European empire" "In his new book Europe as Empire, the Oxford academic Jan Zielonka has come up with a novel solution to the problem. Europe, he cheekily suggests, is best characterised not as a state at all but as a hulking great empire, a juggernaut movingly slowly but determinedly east and south...The EU, he notices, has become closely involved in the affairs of the fledgling Palestinian state. Israel, Lebanon and Jordan are all culturally close to Europe, and might also be tempted to join. Many in Ukraine, too, are warming to EU membership. And if Ukraine joins, what is to stop the EU from reaching as far as Belarus, or even Russia itself?..."
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