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Yet what has been unfolding in the past 15 months or so should make even the most ardent pro-European think about an orderly mechanism for making member states exit: the euro crisis and, less obviously, Hungary's backsliding from liberal democracy to a soft form of authoritarianism, or what an American paper recently called "Lukashenko lite".

Governments in turn sought to lock themselves into Europe so as to prevent backsliding; it was like Ulysses binding himself to the mast in order to resist the siren songs of illiberal and anti-democratic demagogues in the future.

Some pro-Europeans do not object to a distinct Labour campaign, but fear there may be a wider Labour backsliding on Europe in a bid to woo Ukip voters.

Such backsliding may not cause an immediate world economic crisis.

Heavy weapons are easier to come by than once they were and insurgency tactics have been refined in Iraq and elsewhere.Glooming peaceOne reason for backsliding is that peace often fails to bring the prosperity that might give it lasting value to all sides.

Until recently the EU was negotiating "deep and comprehensive" free-trade agreements with just two neighbours: Ukraine, even though it has been backsliding on civil liberties, and Libya.Europe's neighbourhood policy is a sort of enlargement-lite.

The European Commission will spend €600m this year on export subsidies and buying unwanted dairy goods which will then moulder in cold storage (the EU is not recreating mountains, insists one Eurocrat, "more a butter hillock").There is an economic crisis, national officials say, when challenged on this backsliding.

The Democrats are not impressed by this backsliding, but doubtless the voters will hardly notice, or may even be reassured.

Lest there be any backsliding, Mr Bush's personal campaigning in the 2002 mid-term elections reminded congressmen and senators of their interest in keeping on good terms with him.More important, wars always increase the powers of the executive branch.

He has a keen eye for backsliding or faint-heartedness among his enemies, and his onslaught against the Kosovars will doubtless resume if he comes to think that NATO has abandoned its readiness to use force.Yet Mr Milosevic may perversely see some advantage in allowing a relief operation that reduces the pain of his war.

Rückfall, the German word for backsliding, is one reason the euro zone is being pushed back into an acute phase of the crisis.In this section The end of the euro's Indian summer A waning star?