The European Union’s ability to solve problems by muddling through various compromises will help the EU to survive, according to The Economist. That might be true – provided individual states do not get into a worse muddle, unable or unwilling to find the compromises necessary to get out of it. This particular muddle is called national populism and the most recent example of wallowing in it has come – perhaps rather unexpectedly – from Slovakia. At first sight it seems a banal issue that no EU member takes seriously. Slovakia under its new Prime Minister Iveta Radičová is the only […]