Quote:
Originally Posted by Sektor
I know,there are different opinions about European nationalism...I just wanted to know your opinion on that subject...is it based on Charles de Gaule thought - Europe from Lisbon to Ural,or maybe Eurasian idea???is it based on common ethnic,cultural,linguistic roots of European nations or common destiny???
|
When it comes to define Europe, there are different opinions. This has always been the case. One reason why opinions differ is --perhaps-- that each group attempts to define Europe according to a set of self interests.
Common ethnic links? No. No such thing is true for Europe as a whole. Ethnic diversity prevails. Cultural links? That is debatable. Perhaps if we consider that what makes us individually different to others, it also makes us similar to each other. Not that that provides a strong link.
An Europe from Lisbon to the Urals and beyond (Siberia) should be the scope of a well planned Europe, as a geopolitical project. This, however, meets with two problems. One would be that the political structure of Europe with regards to nations is still undefined. The other problem would be that it clashes with the interests of nations in their quest for hegemonical control in Western Europe. But I believe that it could provide a balance to this problem.
The Eurasian idea, as it is usually proposed is, in my opinion, an aberration.
__________________
'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–