The European Union is the “producer of peace,” or so the dominant narrative goes. But there’s a lot of Europe beyond the EU, and in Unherd Peter Franklin unpacks the multiple border crises erupting around the continent and how they reveal the hollow core of an entity that has no army, no police force – no real way to protect itself at all.
The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”
