Re: Hallo aus Estland!
Well, that's pan-Europeanism and has little to do with an ideal of Europe. For such a macro-identity to exist, the true identities which are the ethnical and national identities must dissappear. That is what the E.U. is slowly achieving.
When you reach that point, you don't have an European identity because what you have achieved is, precisely, the destruction of Europe. A true Europe is not a one macro-identity, but the conjuction of all of the identities of the ethnic and national groups that conform Europe. If you destroy that (and the E.U. is working into that direction), you destroy the very heart and soul of Europe.
Once you've reached that point it doesn't matter if you call it European Union or United States of Europe. Europe is not there anymore, it is just another melting pot like the U.S. of America.
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