HOW MAD COWS THREATEN EUROPEAN UNITY

摘要

The carnage is mounting fast in Europe. Thousands of cattle, pigs, and sheep slaughtered and burned to contain the spread of mad cow and foot-and-mouth disease. Farmers ruined. Public fear bordering on hysteria. But there's another kind of damage affecting Europe's body politic—not quite as visible, certainly, as the funeral pyres of animal carcasses popping up across Europe, but harmful nonetheless. It's the subtle destruction done to Europe's idealistic insistence that it can solve its common problems together.