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Originally Posted by Theobald
Huntington never said that Greece, Serbia or Romania were not Europe : actually he does not endorse the idea of a common European civilization and divides what we know as "Europe" between the "Western Catholico-Protestant civilization" (with its offshoots in Northern America and Oceania) and the "Eastern Orthodox civilization". What he describes in your first post is not the borders of Europe but the borders between the Western and the Eastern Orthodox civilization; and, in his opinion, to be effective the European Union should be restricted to Western Catholic & Protestant European countries - but that would not be an "European Union", rather a "West European Union".
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I agree totally with what you have said about Huntinton´s theory.
My question is should we consider that Europe ends in the Catholic&Protestant countries?
I have used Huntington just as an excuse to introduce the concept of "two European blocks" within the continent.