11-03-2005, 09:48 AM
Occhidiangela,Nov 2 2005, 10:47 PM Wrote:PS: Sorry eppie, I missed a point.
I don't think he's anti-European. He is pro Europe and anti-Eurabia, as he calls it. What he represents is an anti EU growth sentiment that bases its belief in the distrust of EU tyranny by bureaucrats, which is NOT the same thing as being anti-European. He sees the retention of difference as "vive la difference" and I think he advocates the various states retain their sovereignty and various unique characters.
Plenty of Dutch folks were apparently anti- the new EU Constitution, but that did not make them anti-European.
Does that make sense to you?
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Yes it does. Many dutch people voted "against" (the european constitution) because they didn't like the possibility that turkey could become a member of the EU. This has of course nothing to do with the EU constitution, but he, it was the first time that we could vote directly about a EU related subject.
Anyway, I'm not very scared that we (the EU countries) will lose our own cultures. Even in the US there are still a lot of differences between people from different states. The EU is of course much more diverse. The only real impact (and that is why politicians are pushing so much) is economic, and for that reason I personally welcome Turkey. I have just as much in common with a turk than with somebody from lithuania so to say.
It is however true that a lot of people think different about that and are especially scared and against more arabians in our country. But thus is a point that is not related to europe whatsoever. Most of the immigration of turks and morocans happened in the 70s and 80s and is becoming less and less.