May 16,
2025
EU and National Identity
The
problem with the EU is not supranationality, but the fact that it has not become
a true nation, as envisioned since the time of the Ventotene Manifesto.
It has remained halfway between an alliance of sovereign states and a real
state.
We elect a European Parliament, but in the end, it is the Council of sovereign
states that runs things—where, in practice, a few nations (France and Germany)
hold the real power.
In the end, we are left with the hegemony of certain states.
What Europe really needs is a sovereign parliament and a common government, just
as in other federations (like the USA or India).
The democratic will of the majority would then prevail, rather than the
interests of a few states.