“We need to invest in a European identity” (cf. “Soviet People”)

EU Observer ^ | 30.03.12 @ 18:03 | Honor Mahony

[Olog-hai]

The European Parliament is trying to cultivate a "European identity," with top officials saying that it is the only way to ensure a lasting union between member states.

"National systems have very much invested in constructing their own identity," Klaus Welle, the secretary general of the European Parliament told an audience at the Center for European Policy Studies, a think-tank, on Thursday (29 March).

"If we want to build a lasting union of solidarity we also need to invest in European identity. We need to understand history as European history and not just as compilation of national histories."

Referring to his native Germany, Welle noted that people speak of the country as if it has existed forever. But the modern German state was created in 1871. Before that there was the German Confederation, which also included Prussia and Austria.

Up until Napoleon's time, there used to be around 300 German-speaking statelets under the Holy Roman Empire. …

The issue of European identity is a touchy subject. MEPs have often referred to the need for countries to make sure that European history is part of national curricula.

But the suggestion alone raises hackles about interference from Brussels. The European Commission, which has the sole right to propose laws, has no real power in education matters, which remain in the hands of member states. …

[Olog-hai]

Yup, exactly the same as when the USSR tried to create the artificial Soviet people.

[rmlew]

There is a European history an identity. However, the left is at war with Christendom, considers indigenous Europeans to be a disease, and are importing non-Europeans. It is the elites of the EUSSR/Eurabia which are destroying any semblance of a European identity. What they are trying to do with this initiative is to destroy the remains of nationalism in the subject peoples of Brussels.