https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/opinion/angela-merkel-germany-immigration-european-union.html
It starts out well enough:
"HAMBURG, Germany — For many years, those of us who are critical admirers of the European Union have warned that it was on a bad path. " …
…"And there was persistent disdain for democracy. In 2005 voters in France and the Netherlands decisively rejected a proposed Constitution for Europe. Undeterred, European leaders repackaged the Constitution in the form of the Lisbon Treaty. In 2008, Irish voters rejected the treaty. Still undeterred, European leaders finagled a revote. The Irish agreed the following year."…
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It concludes:
"There is still time for the E.U. to be saved. Europe needs a real security policy, backed by credible military power and less dependence on Russian energy. It needs to regulate migration strictly outside its borders so that it can remain open within them. It needs robust economic growth and much lower rates of unemployment, not paeans to the virtues of sustainability and work-life balance. And it needs institutions in Brussels that aren’t mere regulatory busybodies trying to punish member states for being economically competitive."
My take on this:
This is as much as saying the EU has none but a very bleak future and should by all means desintegrate asap for the benefit of its original citizens.
It will have to deal in gruesome ways with all those invaders refusing to leave quickly by themselves lest it devolves into fullscale jihadwars which I think the most probable outcome right now even if Merkel left today.