Crunch Year 2016: Can the EU Survive?

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Crunch Year 2016: Can the EU Survive?

The new year has hardly begun and, already, the EU is facing new crises.

By Judy Dempsey

Published on Jan 8, 2016

Source: Deutsche Welle

Speaking on Deutsche Welle’s Quadriga, Judy Dempsey discussed why nationalist and Euroskeptic parties are gaining ground in many EU countries.She was joined by Alan Posener, journalist at Die Welt, and Wojciech Szymanski, Germany correspondent at Polskie Radio.

This broadcast was originally aired on Deutsche Welle.

About the Author

Judy Dempsey

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe

Judy Dempsey is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe

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Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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