Ruadhán Mac Cormaic wrote an interesting piece in The Irish Times on Saturday where he argues how a new authoritarianism is proving a real threat to the EU.
In the last paragraph he writes: "The most dangerous assumption for the EU is to make is that modern democracies are self-renewing.
"They have always demanded things of citizens: participation, argument, struggle.
"And when the space in which those things occur shrinks beyond a certain point, as Europeans know well, the entire political order is in peril.”
They are powerful words.
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