The view from 2027
Written by Charles Grant, 22 March 2007
Given how much respect and esteem most Europeans feel for the EU today, one can easily forget that when it celebrated its 50th birthday, in 2007, it was widely disliked and mistrusted. When given the chance to vote on the EU in referendums, people usually gave it the thumbs down. The EU passed through its very darkest moments at the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
