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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
Europe must act quickly where it's needed and must, once and for all, let member states handle what is their exclusive domain.
I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
You can suddenly have a series of countries waking up and saying, 'I want the same status as the Brits,' which will be, de facto, the dismantling of the rest of Europe.
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.
Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.
The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.