Head of Poland's Supreme Court Malgorzata Gersdorf and judge Jozef Iwulski after a meeting with President Andrzej Duda at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw on 3 July 2018, Gersdorf vowing to resist the government's steps to remove her from her post. NurPhoto/Press Association. All rights reserved.
The express purpose of the European project is to assure peace, promote fundamental values and improve the well-being of nations. The painful lesson we have learned with the Brexit referendum is that we have lost track of such a fundamental objective. Public debate and discussion about the 2016 EU Referendum campaign was dominated by a single theme: the economic consequences of Brexit. Both leavers and remainers assessed whether or not the costs of leaving were greater than the likely benefits. A deeper discussion about the fundamental values on which the European Union is based was sadly missing.
The misconception is common that the European project should only aim at integrating the economies of the member states, whereas any attempt to influence their socio-political sphere has to be regarded as an undue interference in the internal affairs of the various countries.
