The Crisis of the European Union: A Response - Softcover

For Habermas, “Europe” is a good idea that has fallen into the wrong hands. It’s time for the people to take the idea back from the bankers. The politics that matters now is less a demand for more democracy within the nation, where it takes familiar forms, than a demand for democracy beyond the nation, where it remains to be invented.
Los Angeles Review of Books

A hopeful book. [Habermas] affirms his longstanding commitment to a cosmopolitan Europe in which the dynamics of global capitalism can be remastered beyond the nation-state, at a supranational and global level, and he sees a radically altered European Union as a model—indeed, as the precursor—for a constitutionally sanctioned cosmopolitan world order based not on utopian illusions but on realistic assessments.
The Nation

In pinpointing the lack of democratic participation, Habermas builds a case that Europe’s leaders will sooner or later have to answer.
Financial Times USA

A vital injection into the public debate on the future of the EU since it brings our attention to a central political dimension of this project, which seems to have been lost.
European Political Science