Powrót Historii, czyli rewolucja antyliberalna
The Return of History – or The Anti-Liberal Revolution

Summary/Abstract: The European Union, an unique entity on the global scene, is at the crossroads. Original blueprint to create supranational subject is broken, under the pressure of Constitutional crisis (2005) and later economic and financial one (a spectre of Grexit). The process has speeded up in 2014 when external security went to the agenda, followed by unprecedented migrant wave coming to the EU in 2015. As result former euroenthusiasm has been replaced by euroskeptic forces, mostly of populist or nationalist nature what was so strongly confirmed by the British Brexit vote in June 2016. Those accumulated crises brought about many new division lines within the EU, well defined in this study – of political, economic, social, but even religious and cultural nature. Dominating till now liberal mainstream is retreating, while ‘illiberal democracy’, however meant, or even authoritarian solutions are starting to fl ourish. This is an extraordinary era when the whole project of European integration is at stake. Time to react and to sacrifi ce a lot to save it, if we don’t want to retreat under the new challenges surrounding us. The EU can be saved, even if it be different than before – the Author claims.

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