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In his years as president of the ecu Council, Herman Van Rompuy met with a magnificent sequence of best thinkers to debate the way forward for Europe. He set the bar excessive via asking them to inform him anything he had no longer heard prior to. The philosophers, economists, political scientists and felony specialists who took up his invitation met the problem brilliantly. In openhearted and stimulating discussions, they expressed either fears and hopes for the ecu venture at some degree while Europe, with the euro situation, discovered itself in a raging hurricane. on the request of the president, a few of these thinkers have now placed their principles and recommendations on paper. Herman Van Rompuy has written the introductory essay. The vital, topical topic of this assortment is the democratic legitimacy of Europe and its associations. the place one sees too little eu democracy, one other sees an excessive amount of Brussels presumption. The euro difficulty uncovered the strain among democracy and a foreign money union, and among the state states of the ecu. The nationalist refexes that accompany those tensions are noticeable this day in a brand new and unsafe typhoon that's in a roundabout way addressed within the booklet: the migration difficulty. All this makes After the typhoon critical interpreting for somebody excited by Europe. individuals: Herman Van Rompuy Rémi Brague Maurizio Ferrera Dieter Grimm Jürgen Habermas Turkuler Isiksel Ivan Krastev Koen Lenaerts David Miller Dani Rodrik Pierre Rosanvallon Fritz Scharpf Paul Schefer Amartya Sen Larry Siedentop Frank Vandenbroucke