Opinion may be divided over the EU's ability to weather the coming year's gathering storm, but there can be no doubt that 2025 is set to be far more testing than years past From outrightly xenophobic to mildly euro-sceptic, the EU's member governments can no longer be counted on by Brussels to support expensive and far-sighted economic strategies The author is the founder of the Friends of Europe think tank. He currently serves as a senior associate fellow in the European Affairs Program of the