When EU leaders discuss the coronavirus Recovery Fund at the upcoming meeting of the European Council on Friday, some persistent European stereotypes will accompany negotiations.
Calls for the rejection of face masks, for example, bring together a disparate set of European political actors – all re-claiming ‘personal sovereignty’.
As the European elections get under way, let us avoid conspiratorial geopolitics. Focusing on sinister figures is politically debilitating, presuming a priori that these forces will determine the course of events.
“ I highlight the US and Italy... not only because Tarrant drew inspiration from both, but also because both have become important contemporary laboratories of dangerous ideologies.”
