After the Fall, a European Empire?

Recap of the Book ‘The Decline’ by Professor David Engels

Within twenty to thirty years, civil wars are going to break out throughout Europe, comparable to the wars Spartacus waged against Rome before the collapse of its republic. That’s what professor David Engels of Brussels’s Free University predicts in an (as usual) underexposed book Le Déclin (The Decline) that was also translated into German as Auf dem Weg ins Imperium (On the Road to Empire) in 2014.

According to this Belgian historian, the similarities between the decline of the present-day European Union and the fall of the Roman Republic are so big that civil war in Europe has become inevitable. Countries such as Germany and France will then cease to exist. In their places, armed paramilitary groups will found their own states.