European civil war within 30 years: Historian

A Belgian historian has claimed that a civil war will erupt in Europe within the next three decades, drawing an analogy between the continent and the ‘fall of the Roman Empire.
“In 20 to 30 years Europe will have become an authoritarian or imperial state, after a phase resembling civil war and decay,” David Engels, a historian at the Free University of Brussels, said in a published report on Saturday.
“I expect a civil war, which will force a fundamental social and political reformation in Europe, whether we like it or not, following the example of the decaying Roman Republic in the first century BC,” he said in remarks published by the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Express.
Elaborating on his alarming prediction, Engels noted that the parallels between the European Union and Julius Caesar’s equivalent are “so massive, so obvious and that has been the case for decades.”’
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