Rem Korteweg of the Center for European Reform compares the interlocking crises to the four horsemen of the apocalypse in the New Testament Book of Revelation: harbingers of a „day of judgment“ representing conquest, war, famine and death.
„The EU‘s leaders will find it hard to tame these four horsemen,“ the Dutch thinker wrote in an essay. „If a European answer cannot be found, the horsemen will continue to promote chaos, instability and mutual recrimination within the EU.“