Book review: The passage to Europe: how a continent became a union

"The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union." Luuk van Middelaar. Yale University Press. May 2013. --- Given the current economic crisis and questions about the legitimacy of the European Union, what is the future of European integration? As the EU faces its most serious economic and political test, Luuk Van Middelaar’s account of its history asks us to reconsider the forces that underpin the EU, hold it together and drive it forward. Renaud Thillaye finds that this timely book reinforces the notion that we can accept the current uncertainty about the future of the EU, while remaining confident about its purpose.