Charles Kupchan, professor of international affairs, in an op-ed on the slow death of the European Union:

"The European Union is dying -- not a dramatic or sudden death, but one so slow and steady that we may look across the Atlantic one day soon and realize that the project of European integration that we've taken for granted over the past half-century is no more."

As Nationalism Rises, Will the European Union Fall?

August 29, 2010, The Washington Post