The expert warned the EU against sliding back to the politics of the 19th century, when large countries decided the fate of small ones
Michael Meyer-Resende, director of the Berlin-based NGO International Studies on Democracy, talks to Euractiv about what Europe could be like without the EU, and what signs of this process are already there. “Even today, following the practice of the nineteenth century, when issues of small states are resolved by large ones, Russia is deciding the fate of Ukraine without the participation of Ukraine itself. And it is not the European Union that is represented in the Normandy format...