The frantic leaders of France, Germany, and Italy are making a pilgrimage to the tomb of one of the European Union’s founding fathers in a publicity stunt meant to encourage support for the crumbling European project.

Described generously by The Associated Press as “a symbolic bid to relaunch the European project following Britain’s decision to leave the E.U.,” it is actually the desperate act of globalist politicians to pull an increasingly unpopular institution out of its death throes.

The desperate act of those trying to revive a political institution in its death throes.

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That these three European figures — German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and French President François Hollande — believe a photo-op will somehow reverse the E.U.’s downward spiral speaks volumes about their distance from the majority of ordinary Europeans.

Their trip may actually reaffirm in the minds of many why they dislike the E.U. The tomb the three will visit is that of Altiero Spinelli, an Italian Communist who coauthored the 1941 Ventotene Manifesto calling for a united federal Europe.

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If visiting the tomb of a Communist opposed to national sovereignty at a time when anti-globalization, right-leaning populist political parties are on the rise wasn’t silly enough, the three leaders will afterwards be visiting the Italian aircraft carrier Garibaldi. The Garibaldi is the ship coordinating the E.U.’s migrant rescue operation.

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“Two symbols in one: idealistic values and concrete commitment,” Renzi wrote in a weekly newsletter. “We want that the Europe after Brexit — the Europe hit in its heart by terrorism — will relaunch the powerful ideals of unity and peace, freedom and dreams, dialogue and identity.”

Right. Because nothing will assuage fears of militant Islamic terror better than highlighting the E.U.’s efforts to bring in more questionably vetted Muslims, many with positively barbaric values. Nothing says relaunching identity and freedom quite like a photo-op at the tomb of a Communist opposed to national sovereignty.