DO TELL: The State Of The European Union Is Bleak. “Long considered the most stable region in the world outside of North America, Europe is now wracked by multiple crises. If anything, the U.S. is still not paying enough attention to the decay in the stability of some of our closest allies. It’s easy for Americans and Europeans to criticize one another, and both sides score some fair hits. But increasingly both sides of the Atlantic have a set of problems in common that elites seem unable or unwilling to address.”