The European Commission’s ‘state of the union 2018’ presented last week by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker made a point of celebrating achievements but signalled loudly as well that the work is far from over. Not for Europe—one only needs to nudge at issues such as refugees and economic migrants, illiberal democracy, or shifts in the geopolitical order—nor for the current Commission and European Parliament: policy that doesn’t make it through the institutions before the May 2019 European elections risks running severe delays at best.
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