Black is White! Up is Down!

From Monday's FT:

For internationalists everywhere, for believers in much deeper co-operation between nations, for those pushing for the establishment of an international legal order, the EU is a beacon of hope.

If the European experiment begins to unravel – after more than 60 years of painstaking advances – then the ideas that Europe represents will also suffer severe damage. Rival ideas – the primacy of power over law, the enduring supremacy of the nation state, authoritarianism – may gain ground instead.

As opposed to the EU dream, which is, er, the primacy of power over law, the enduring power of the EU and authoritarianism?

And yes, I know that the FT is an EU-phile paper...