New book

In October 2018, my latest book will be published in French by Gallimard under the titleQuand l’Europe improvise: dix ans de crises politiques (Collection Le Débat). Info on launch events in Paris and Brussels will follow. The English translation will appear at Agenda Publishing, in March 2019, as Alarums and Excursions.

The book is a frontline narrative of Europe’s crisis years, a cool assessment of the Union’s event-driven political metamorphosis, and a plea to bring in the voices of opposition. It draws on five years of up-close political experience, followed by two years of reading, thinking, writing and rewriting. The Dutch original appeared in September 2017 as De nieuwe politieke van Europa at Historische Uitgeverij.