The question put by Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans does not, as everyone now realises, apply only to the European Union and several of its members. It is all of the Western world, including the United States promised by Donald Trump, which now has to ask itself where its leaders went wrong. Why did the disconnect between a majority of citizens and the traditional elites have to happen in Washington as it had done in London with Brexit.
The situations are different on either...