This article has some decent factual information in it, but the constant shrill framing that the crisis would 'tear Europe apart' is clearly just aimed at getting clicks from English and American readers who don't understand EU well.
EU cooperation is indeed always very difficult and is constantly hard - that's precisely why EU has structures so that countries don't need to like or trust each other in order to work together, long-term.
@Loukas Yes -- another complaint of mine is that standard Anglo-American reporting on any EU elections that produce negotiated alliances produced by PR are regarded as intrinsic problems of management and democracy rather than forms for containing and channeling necessary political antagonisms.
@ianhunt I'm sure that's true - although most EU countries have also been seeing significant political fragmentation/radicalisation recently so stories of electoral crisis are often justified.
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