We must avoid idealist visions of a post-EU continent.

It is the politics of Europe’s current rulers that must be challenged, not the UK’s membership of the EU.

While there are Putinversteher to be found everywhere in Europe there seem to be no Europaversteher in Russia. Where does this lack of understanding come from? 

Europe either hangs together or - as the American revolutionaries liked to point out - the nations of Europe will be hanged separately.

Despite the historic nature of a Brexit referendum, it has been worryingly absent during this election. Serious discussion in the press is almost non-existent.

The world has seen far more handshakes and meetings between Pristina and Belgrade than in the first years after the conflict. Is all this to be put at risk by Clint Williamson's part-endorsement of the Marty report?