Our Europe columnist muses over what the proposed “European Political Community” and the UEFA cup have in common
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskTiers are a brutal necessity to keep football tournaments manageable in Europe, home to over 1,000 professional clubs from Reykjavik to Donetsk. Now something similar is being mulled to help organise the continent’s politics. Depending on where you draw the line, there are 40-50 countries in Europe. Each is either qualified for the main show in town—the, with 27 members plodding towards ever-closer union—or sits outside it.
Proposals to split Europe into concentric circles have a long pedigree. After the Berlin Wall collapsed, François Mitterrand, another French president, suggested eastern European countries formerly under Soviet control might join a looser “European confederation”—the subtext being that they would not soon be welcome into the inner sanctum. Some organisations cover the whole continent, but focus on specific things, like singing competitions , football or monitoring human rights .
Part of the problem is the messenger. As Mr Macron floated the idea of a wider community, he also suggested it would take decades for Ukraine to qualify for fullmembership. Its putative accession is the source of tensions within the bloc. Eastern Europe is pushing for Ukraine’s courage under fire to be recognised with rapid membership, or at least formal candidate status.
As in the 1980s, the problem with outer tiers is that nobody wants to be in them. In theory this new community would be separate from the, perhaps with its own headquarters far from Brussels. In practice whatever was decided by those in the continent’s inner core would have to be accepted by everyone else.uefabut don’t fancy joining, for example Norway or Switzerland. But their arrangements for dealing with theare tailor-made and work well.
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