North African immigrants in Sicily. Vito Manzari. Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved.
An endless financial crisis, vast regional wars with huge ripple effects, mass migrations, climate change: today’s Herculean challenges. As Europeans, we cannot trust our own national States to sort them out alone, by themselves.
Nonetheless, States do need borders. But to keep out what? Economic immigrants (so much despised by a certain British press, for example), refugees, terrorists, imported goods or services, different ways of thinking, data?
