Can Climate Policy Give Europe Its Mojo Back?

The European Union has been running into the sand for some years now. In its early decades it offered a vision for Europe that had the capacity to inspire. European integration seemed a plausible route to individual freedom, and national wealth and security, while at the same time being built on lofty, and historically necessary, anti-nationalist values. When the path to the moral high ground is also the path of self-interest one tends not to look for another route.