EUxit or EU-turn? The quiet abandoning of the EU order

While this year’s SOTEU will likely be the same self-congratulatory ritual as usual, the state of the European Union is critical, possibly terminal. Superficially there seem to be signs of a (timid) European revival, but look closer and you see that most actions and initiatives circumvent and exclude the EU. Instead of bolstering the EU in response to the big political challenges, it is being quietly stripped and undermined. The façade is still standing, but inside