Of course we should fear them, and the EU was all about taming them. But what we have been facing now it is not just that objectives are wrong, but the mechanism has not been fully implemented in the manner that would involve not just the national elites of all member states, but also the electorates – said Eugeniusz Smolar, CIR’s senior fellow, during a debate “The integration and disintegration tendencies in the EU in the context of the war in Ukraine” organised by Kultura Liberalna with Fundacja Współpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej i Zeit-Stiftung.