Re: Isolationism - yes or no?
If this question arises from the comment made by some, that opposing to a form of Pan-Europeanism or euro-centralism equals isolationism, then in my opinion that is not isolationism.
I don't support isolationism, neither for my country nor for Europe as a whole. It is the details and the limits of aperturism that should be considered and discussed. But for aperturism to be, politically it must start at a sanitized point of tightness, and develop from there under set conditions.
The model of Europe should be worked on a project of confederation of sovereign nations, based on a symbiotic relation between the nation-states and the confederation. Such a confederation should exist to ensure the protection and preservation of the national identities and their interests in a wider global framework.
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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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