It's not Europe. It's national democracy that’s dysfunctional (Carlo Bastasin, Brookings)

Is Brexit proof that Europe is not working? In fact, what Brexit demonstrates is rather that, in some cases, national democracies can become dysfunctional—when complex decisions cross national boundaries and have huge effects, for instance. This is a problematic and confusing finding. It only follows that the EU cannot work if its constituent national democracies do not work.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/07/12-national-democracy-dysfunction-europe-bastasin

Closed borders will make Europe collapse (Carlo Bastasin, Brookings)

Migration, inequality, middle class decline, the euro crisis, mistrust of the establishment—there is no shortage of explanations for the angry message voters in European countries are delivering with their ballots. However, most of the time, we dismiss the message as a temporary burst of irascibility that will eventually self-modulate. For at least 20 years, we have deemed public irritation as a negligible price for democracy.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/04/29-european-borders-nationalization-bastasin

(Istituto fondamentale - Greece) Why the Greek referendum was a ruse (Carlo Bastasin, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/07/09-greek-referendum-ruse-bastasin