An Unforeseeable Europe

... calm down and fall into place, and that they would not be seeing the Janissaries of Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha storming the bastions of Vienna any time soon. However, in late 2018, Paris became witness to an uprising of “yellow vests,” and Emmanuel Macron’s star began to dim. Angela Merkel’s victory in the German federal elections was pyrrhic: next year, the exogenous Alternative for Germany party will achieve unprecedented success in Bavaria and Hesse and the Chancellor will be forced to play the unenviable role of “lame duck.” All attempts to agree upon a “civilized divorce” with the United Kingdom have thus far come to ...