Europe in troubled waters

A surprising look into the European kitchen The European Union has become powerful. We travel without border controls, pay with the euro and in all kinds of areas European rules have an impact on our lives. But there are also areas in which the Union is seemingly powerless. During the euro crisis, the end of the monetary union seemed imminent. With large-scale tax avoidance, the threat of terrorism, the refugee issue... it remains difficult to speak with one voice. Europe struggles from crisis to crisis. Yet the Union does not fall apart. Rob Heirbaut and Hendrik Vos look at how Europe deals with emergency situations. It stalls and it rumbles and it falters, but integration does not come to a standstill. What is the glue that keeps the member states at the negotiating table? Where is this going? And what about the British, who have voted for Brexit? Leaving the European Union is apparently a complicated affair...