THE REPRISE OF EUROPEAN ANTISEMITISM:

For many Germans, the EU is deemed vital to ensure that their own country never again repeats the horrors of the past. That was presumably what lay behind Chancellor Merkel’s remark, when the euro started to implode, that it was imperative for the EU to be saved because without it there would again be war in Europe.

This was indeed the foundational vision of the EU (and its predecessor body) in the wake of World War Two – that to ensure the peace in Europe, Germany had to be tied down like Gulliver in Lilliput, and the best way of doing this was to bind it into Europe by indissoluble economic and political ties.

It was a noble vision; but it was fundamentally flawed, I would suggest, for three main reasons. First, the erosion of national self-government inescapably involved in the EU project does not enshrine democracy but results instead in rather less of it. Second, as the euro implosion has so graphically demonstrated, trying to fashion one supranational entity out of disparate nations is intrinsically incoherent and ultimately self-destructive.

And third, the EU has done nothing to diminish the Judeophobia which led to the Holocaust in Europe. Indeed, the obsessional malice towards Israel has provided cover for a resurgence of the oldest hatred within the graveyard of European Jewry. As Giulio Meotti reports, Jews are being expelled from academia across Europe.

My worries about the EU continue to come to fruition, alas.