Based upon recent economic and political trends in Western Europe, Daniel Singer predicts that the European Union will enter a period of "consensus politics" looking very much like Reaganism and the Republican 1994 "Contract with the People." Given an absence of viable solutions from the traditional parties of the left, Singer forsees that the extreme right will put forth policies that are increasingly narrow and nationalistic.

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