Thank you for the very informative review article.

Indeed it is not only France but the whole European Union that is ahead of very difficult decisions.

The question looks like this: do we try to save the European Union by agreeing into a total political and economical integration, basically creating a single, supra-national democracy, or we abandon the "Eurodream" throwing basically each European country into the hands of the far right or the far left, leading to very unpredictable national, and international relationships.

Looking at how the world has changed, how we evolved into a global, interconnected and interdependent system, the wise decision is to follow the natural path and enter the deeper integration.

The question is whether we have enough visionary politicians who can pull such miracle off by rising above their own self interest, "legacy", providing enough transparent, honest, factual information to the voting public on the nature and laws governing our integral, natural system, to sway them before the elections.

It is a problem since so far the same public has been brainwashed by the corporate led politicians and media with all the false information necessary to keep the profit making constant growth, exploitative machinery moving.

Thus the same politicians and media might not have the necessary credibility any more.

Maybe the changes have to come from "below" from the awakening public as we saw it through the mass demonstrations last year?

On one hand these are exciting times as we are definitely writing history, our present civilization has outlived itself, on the other hand the stakes are very high, and we only have a very narrow margin for further mistakes.