TIME Magazine Asia March 20, 2017 Back Issue

CAN EUROPE SURVIVE THE NEW POPULISM?
This year sees not just the twenty fifth birthday of the Maastricht Treaty but also the sixtieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which established the first common European market and turned the idea of a united Europe into reality. It should be a moment of celebration for a supranational bloc that has since expanded to twenty eight nations and won the Nobel Peace Prize for decades of doing what it was formed to do: prevent war. But there is little jubilation among many of the people the E.U. was ostensibly set up to help. Instead, the bloc’s very foundations are being eroded by a rising tide of antifederalist populism.