NYT on why the euro is breaking the European Union apart:

Leaders seem diminished; local politics trump solidarity. There is a new nationalism degrading the collective responsibility and shared sovereignty that defines the European Union. Euro-skepticism runs from far-right parties that simultaneously detest immigrants, globalism and Brussels to the governing parties of Europe’s most successful countries.

Gosh! If only Europeans would stop complaining and trust centralizing elites far removed from local conditions. If only they would quit caring about maintaining their local traditions, and open themselves to economic rationalization. If only they would get with the plan and realize that it’s in their best interests to cast off the traditional and open themselves to the free transnational flow of capital and people. If only they would realize that their future is in the Cube, not the Cathedral. If only the Eurocratic elites could get rid of those troglodytes, who obviously don’t know what’s good for them, then Europe would finally be able to enter into its secularist, universalist, Enlightenment paradise!

But seriously, a note to the NYT writer: maybe the “solidarity” Euroskeptical Europeans prefer to have is with their own kind, with the people they know, not with some abstraction.