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INTRODUCTION. EUROPE AND GLOBALISATION

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have run their course but there is no sign of a replacement. This creates a

gap that the new populist parties – primarily of the right but also of the

left – have sought to exploit with anti-European formulae and the false

promise of closed borders. The results include Brexit and the democratic

crises in Poland and Hungary.

The EU needs a revitalised project, a relaunch – as the title of this

Report suggests – because it is the best thing to have happened to gen-

erations of Europeans. This Report therefore puts forward a range of ideas

for this relaunch. The EU has to regain its leadership by offering the poli-

cies that the continent, and the world, needs. It must create a specific

proposal, with immediate commitments, that has the power to convince

Europeans.