In other words, the migration crisis has again highlighted the EU’s essentially undemocratic nature. This was most obviously on display with the imposition of economic austerity measures upon indebted eurozone countries and the removal of elected governments that would not, or could not, accept the constraints on their sovereignty. But this is what they signed up to. A single currency is one of the building blocks of a single state; but without true fiscal and political integration, it just means the biggest country, ie Germany, imposing its will upon the others. Similarly, free movement of people is a necessary condition of a union; but to remove borders while retaining separate national governments is to risk a backlash when voters in member states object to decisions on who should live where being taken out of their hands. Look what is happening in Hungary – the necessary popular mandate simply does not exist. Sooner or later, this will be the EU’s undoing.