A continent without borders was part of EU holy writ.
"People associate Africa first of all as a continent without food.
A Cambridge professor offers a thoroughly comprehensible account of the polarization of a continent, without fixing guilt on one leader or nation.
chief in a starring role, is the crisis of the European dream — the vision of a continent without borders or divisions, supervised by a benevolent and cosmopolitan elite.
They offer a kind of fantasy travel, allowing the visitor the illusion of traversing a continent, without days of highway tedium.
But if this monologue takes time to come into focus, it finally reveals the rootlessness of a young man without a country, on a continent at war with itself - and the ripples that his decisions cast.
Of course, Europe's problems are more deep-seated than America's, thanks to the principal flaw in the euro's design: that it is a single currency operating in a continent without fiscal union.
Starting with a modest merger of coal and steel industries in 1951, the architects of the modern European Union have progressively dismantled barriers to the free movement of people and goods, and gradually turned slogans about a continent without borders into a reality.
The leaders must insist on the sort of intervention that the young Dr. Kouchner of Doctors Without Borders had espoused before he fused humanitarianism and war, the sort of intervention that would lead to a continent of Europeans without borders.
Enter bright sparks who might have invented spaceships or life-saving drugs, but in fact invented the eurodollar market – a continent of opportunity without actual territory or policing, because it existed somewhere over there, somewhere offshore.
