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- - - - : there is no
        majority for it among the governments
      - not necessary for a more coherent and effective
      - no longer member
- - - - The migrant crisis is receding.
      - the euro appears stable for the moment,
  - - - ll European countries are democratic and economically interdependent, and they share largely uncontested (indeed, often invisible) borders. Hence they coexist without posing any mortal threat to one another.
  - - - Several examples and:
        For China to challenge Europe or the United States on an equal basis, Beijing would need to outspend the West not for one year, but for decades — something that delays the projected point where (at current trends) it would surpass the West close to the end of the 21st century.
      - t Europe maintains enduring alliances. & By contrast, Russia and China can call on few allies
      - Europe’s ability to project coercive force to compel others to acquiesce to political demands does not
    - - The EU is, in fact, the world’s second-largest economy. Even more importantly, it is the world’s largest trader of goods and services.
      - EU enlargement —driven largely by perceptions of economic advantage — has been in recent decades the most cost-effective political tool of influence in the hands of any Western country
        
        Europe further leverages its regional market power through a “neighborhood policy” of bilateral agreements w
      - Other European economic instruments are less visible but no less important. One example is foreign aid.
  - - - , other governments become committed to institutional rules Europe has designed, thereby influencing the policies of individual states.