A violent and coordinated youth uprising? That’s exactly the picture Europe’s enemies want to paint | Alberto Alemanno
Each country’s protesters have distinct grievances. Listen to them, not the voices telling us Europe is ungovernableLast Saturday night, the town hall of Limoges in west-central France was set ablaze....
By Alberto Alemanno · The Guardian Opinion
Each country’s protesters have distinct grievances. Listen to them, not the voices telling us Europe is ungovernable Last Saturday night, the town hall of Limoges in west-central France was set ablaze . By Sunday, images of the fire destroying a symbol of the French republic, and other scenes of unrest across France , were everywhere, but being used to tell very different stories about what is happening in Europe. For some, the flames announced a pan-European youth revolt , proof that a single movement was sweeping the continent. Donald Trump, who had already insisted that the French schools protests were not about schools but about migration and Islam , urged Europeans to “close the borders”. The mayor of Limoges saw the fingerprints of an alleged ultra-left insurrection. Alberto Alemanno is the Jean Monnet professor of EU law at HEC Paris and the founder of The Good Lobby Continue reading...