Quo vadis, Europa?

Here's an added 'political' burden to the already deepening 'economic crisis' in Spain.... 

What has happened? What is happening in the EU?

When I was studying regional integration there was a convincing argument that I used to look up to — that there's a marked difference between the accession of Spain, Portugal, and Greece in the late 1980s (i.e., 'good' integration) and the accession of East and Baltic Europe in the early 2000s (i.e., 'bad' integration). As it appears, the 'good' cases are worse off than the 'bad' cases. Overall, however, EU is in a sorry state.

Quo vadis, Europa?!?!

Meanwhile, I'm reminded of one of my lecture slides about my thesis of "Today's Geoeconomics of Development", a narrative of "lagging behind, catching up, forging ahead":

• China is a Technology.

• Europe is a Museum.

• US is a Wall (Wall Street).

And I've been longing to have the time and opportunity to write about this argument.