LONDON — I have been overcome by gloom since Britain voted to leave the European Union. The European Union was an entity, bloodless noun, yet it had a beating heart. There will be no extra $470 million for the National Health Service from European Union savings, after all. Covering the European Parliament between 1980 and 1982, I would drive down from Brussels to Strasbourg. Memories: feckless Europe at the time of the Bosnian war and the thirst, nonetheless, of the small nations reborn in Yugoslavia’s death to join the European Union and escape the bloody Balkan gyre.

Source: New York Times June 27, 2016 11:04 UTC