Sovereignty, resistance, migration

Over the last thirty years, sovereignty has become an endangered concept,(1) and there is no greater sign of this weakening of sovereignty than recent events in Europe. In 2001, Jurgen Habermas and the late Ulrich Beck celebrated the coming European century and enthused about the successes of the EU. Europe had expanded to the East, the euro had been successfully introduced, and nationalism and xenophobia had been left behind.(2) The European model was the future of humanity.