Europe’s Coming Existential Crisis

Americans pay little attention to Europe, other than to sneer at the Euro-elites and bemoan the fecklessness of European leaders. I am guilty of both sins. Mea culpa. But I am also aware of the coming existential crisis facing Europe as a whole and the European Union quite specifically. It comes in several flavors, and all of them are bitter. First is the shock and embarrassment posed by the influx of 72,000 North African Muslim wannabe migrants into Ceuta, one of two tiny Spanish enclaves in Morocco, just miles away from the Spanish mainland near Gibraltar. The inability—or unwillingness—of the...