It's a challenging time for the EU for sure. You have countries, such as France, Germany, Benelux, Spain and Scandinavia that are broadly speaking liberal economies and share a reasonably common outlook. Then you've got the Visegrad, Austria, Italy and Greece that have succumbed to populism. I would say most of us here would not want any of those countries to venture any further to the extremes than they already have, yet I sense from Brexiteers that they've washed their hands of the whole affair. That saddens me enormously, especially as the twin engines of the global economy are an undemocratic China and a United States that seems hell bent on unravelling all of the post-war global institutions that have done so much good. People rejected this notion as 'project fear', but given this, have people really thought about what might happen if the EU did fall?
