Letter: Consensus-seeking is EU’s rational survival strategy

In a letter published in the Financial Times, law professor at HEC Paris Business School Alberto Alemanno argues that the European Union’s tendency toward consensus is not a weakness but a “rational survival strategy.” He explains that, after decades of economic integration without equivalent political integration, EU leaders remain accountable to national rather than European constituencies — leaving the Union structurally incapable of decisive collective action until genuine transnational democratic institutions are created.