Lamenting the future

It can be tiring to think about.

"It is not that there is a crisis, that is not the case, the European Union is rather suffering from a sort of illness of apathy, from general fatigue."

She [French Europe Minister Catherine Colonna] went on to say that this does "not augur well for its future capacity to respond to the needs of its people."

"Nobody can understand why the Europeans are unable to help one another in an organised fashion in fighting forest fires or in coordinating the evacuations of their nationals from Lebanon," she pointed out.

The kindest way to put it is that they’re being pecked to death by countless little rules, initiatives, and PC social engineering efforts. The unkind thing to say is that people bring that crap on themselves.