Re: Personally Define Europe
In historical terms, it is not easy to define but Europe was forged over hundreds of years upon the foundations of the Civilizations of the Mediterranean and Celtic peoples, then later with the addition of the Germanic and the Slavic peoples.
But this has been an unfinished process.
In political terms, not a reality but a possibility of a political space in which the different native ethinicities and cultures can be preserved and can coexist as free and sovereign nations, in a grand common space of mutual cooperation, exchange and protection.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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