28/04/2012 The Economist: Kicking against austerity
IN 2005 the people of France and the Netherlands gave a stinging rebuke to the European Union by rejecting a new constitutional treaty. Seven years on, they are again causing alarm. To judge from the presidential race in France and the fall of the Dutch government this week, many are kicking against austerity. And a growing number support extremist parties of the left and right that reject the decades-old European project altogether.