Hans Kundnani is a visiting professor in practice at the European Institute at the London School of Economics and the author of Eurowhiteness.
The late Jürgen Habermas saw Europe as a vehicle for a social democratic, postnational politics. But as the real European Union increasingly diverged from this ideal, Habermas’s thinking failed to reckon with the project’s fundamental limits.
The British vote to leave the European Union is often cited as a far-right breakthrough. But as anti-immigration parties surge across the EU, Europe’s own claim to represent internationalist values looks increasingly in doubt.