Refeudalising Europe 
Alain Supiot
To encourage French voters to approve the treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, President Chirac warned them against the risk of France becoming the ‘black sheep’ of Europe. But, as Einstein once wrote, ‘in order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, first of all, be a sheep.’ In the event, the French, whichever way they voted, did not behave like a flock of sheep.
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Alain Supiot is a professor of law at the University of Nantes and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His Homo juridicus: Essai sur la fonction anthropologique du Droit will be published soon in English.
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