ON THE EUROPEAN QUESTION
ON THE EUROPEAN QUESTION

Summary/Abstract: A problem, Jean-Claude Milner recalled in his disconcerting meditations on Europe, calls for a solution. A question, on the other hand, calls for a response. Whereas a question implies a subject, an addressee or interlocutor summoned to answer it, a problem exists (or is said to exist) objectively; it is the case, in other words, whether stated by anyone or not. Taking stock of these distinctions, and of the need to interrogate them, toward a proper understanding of “the criminal inclinations of democratic Europe [les penchants criminels de l’Europe démocratique]” and of its most notorious “question,” Milner fashionably advocates a form of integration. He proposes to integrate and unify a vision and a perspective that otherwise persist in strictly distinguishing between problem and question, response and solution.

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