A thought to take with you when you go out and vote for the European parliament: Last Saturday I read an interesting column by the Dutch writer Bas Heijne (through Google Translate) on the topic of Europe's state of affair (in Dutch). His argument can be summarized with the following quote, while referring to Rüdiger Safranski, from his column (translated):

As global processes get more closely intertwined, things get ever more complex, so complex that they are intellectually too hard to understand. You have no overview, and yet you are force...