Source: Europe declared peace while the world was still at war
My response to the above opinion piece:
This may well be another vestige of old Europe holding up the EU. Open borders should spell greater cooperation, but the vestiges of the jingoism that kept Europe at war the past century are hampering the herculean task of unification. Of course, bureaucratic turf wars are about as bad. The FBI would still rather have an Israeli company crack an iPhone than the NSA.
It is unfair to criticize the EU for perceived shortcomings in this infinitely detailed task. The NSA lost the 9/11 bombers two weeks before they acted. The San Bernardino massacre is unstoppable given the free access to weapons in the US. These are systemic risks. The question is how can they be reduced? Diplomats and academics offer many solutions to which the public and the officials they elect offer deaf ears.