Twenty years ago, the argument that the EU would nurture extremism seemed academic. The Maastricht Treaty, averred Britain’s fledgling Eurosceptic movement, would create disaffection. As powers were concentrated in Brussels, there would be a backlash – precisely the sort of nationalist backlash, paradoxically, that the European project had been designed to forestall. By sneeringly dismissing […]

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