Europe in a Turbulent World: Four Comments

Europe in a Turbulent World: Four Comments

A Response to ‘Enhancing Europe’s Global Power: A Scenario Exercise with Eight Proposals’, Christoph M. Abels, Helmut K. Anheier, Iain Begg, Kevin Featherstone

The way ahead should be to greatly strengthen the doctrine of ‘subsidiarity,’ to protect against the EU taking on tasks it does not need to perform. This may have costs in terms of economic efficiency, due to more policy incoherence; but these costs have to be weighed against the economic gains from more scope for policy experimentation and copying.