This was supposed to be the year that the European Union imploded—the year when the populist revolts that engulfed the U.S. and the U.K. in 2016 would spread to the continent, toppling mainstream governments and withdrawing popular consent for European integration. The tensions created by the eurozone debt crisis and the migration crisis would be finally laid bare in elections in the Netherlands, France, Germany and Austria, many pundits warned. The centrifugal forces pulling Europe apart would finally overwhelm the centripetal...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 17, 2017 20:15 UTC