In the EU, “polycrisis” is a term that has come into use in the last decade. European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker borrowed the idea from the French theorist of complexity Edgar Morin.25 Juncker used it to capture the convergence between 2010 and 2016 of the eurozone crisis, the conflict in Ukraine, the refugee crisis, Brexit, and the Europe-wide upsurge in nationalist populism.
