''Europe seems to have come up with a narrative about the United Kingdom:
The British are losing their minds. An otherwise extremely rational
people, according to this oft-repeated tale, succumbed to a fit of
irrationality in listening to populist clowns and turning their backs on
the European Union. All that's left to us is to prevent the virus from
jumping the Channel and infecting the Continent.
Europe had long viewed the UK as a rather eccentric, but nevertheless
pragmatic and open neighbor, one less interested in political ideology
than in free markets. A nation of commerce whose colonial history has
made it familiar with the world at large, a nation that has shaped
pop-culture with exports from the Beatles to Adele. Cool Britannia. In
recent years, however, the European view of the country has become more
distrustful, more skeptical..''
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