BRUSSELS — Is amnesia an integral part of politics? When it comes to the treaty to reform the European Union's institutions, which will be finalized this month, recent events suggest that amnesia does play a central role.
Let's examine the "illness" that leads certain EU leaders with questionable scruples to forget even the recent past. Busy with domestic political affairs, they do not hesitate to use Europe as a scapegoat to avoid breaking bad news to their fellow citizens. Some display separatist tendencies that worry, and frustrate, their electorates.
No surprise, then, that many EU citizens refuse, or at least hesitate, to embrace the European cause.