Brexit
Martyn McGeown provides a historical overview of the European Union's formation and development, from the 1957 Treaty of Rome through various expansion and integration treaties, explaining the political and economic structures behind the Brexit decision. The article examines how European leaders progressively centralized power and surrendered national sovereignty to bureaucratic institutions, offering context for understanding this significant geopolitical event from a Reformed perspective on Christian citizenship and the proper ordering of civil authority.
What is the EU? A new word entered the English vocabulary recently -- Brexit, which means the "British exit" from the European Union (EU). To understand the implications of this move, let me briefly provide an overly simplified history of the EU, as well as an outline of its political and economic structures. The "European project" began as a way to avoid the horrors of a Third World War. Hitler's Germany must never be permitted to reoccur. The goal of the "European project" was to prevent...
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