For most of the past half-century Bratislava’s medieval castle, high above the Danube in the Slovakian capital, has been under reconstruction. Next week a four-man insurgency will enliven a European summit being held in the castle by recommending similar reconstruction plans for the EU. They may not be well received, but Europe will suffer if they are ignored.
Viktor Orbán, the populist Hungarian prime minister, has seized the limelight in the build-up to the Bratislava summit by calling Brexit a “fantastic opportunity” for a “cultural counter-revolution in Europe”. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the former Polish prime minister, shared a platform with Mr Orbán to back the idea of a counter-revolution and make clear that it would require changes in how the EU is structured and makes decisions.