“This is an existential crisis for Europe that raises the spectre of a return to violent conflict on our continent”
Europe is facing an ‘existential crisis’ that could end in violent revolution and war, the French foreign minister warned last night, according to media reports.
Alain Juppe, a former French prime minister, said the spiralling debt crisis could trigger ‘the explosion of the European Union itself’, reported the Daily Mail Online.
Juppe told the French news magazine L’Express that the deepening crisis was creating a dangerous breeding ground for violent nationalism, reminiscent of the 1930s.
He said: “This is an existential crisis for Europe that raises the spectre of a return to violent conflict on our continent.
“This could call into question all that we have created, not only in the 20 years since the Maastricht Treaty, but since the foundation of the European community.
“In that eventuality, everything becomes possible, even the worst. It could be the explosion of the European Union itself.
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