Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.
Europe must be understood and controlled by its citizens.
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.
To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
Europe existed before Britain joined it.
What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.