SHELLEY WALIA
The Hindu Sunday, Jun 26, 2005
I might sound xenophobic, but I am glad at the recent signs of disintegration of the European Union. I have never been in favour of a strong Europe because that symbolises a new round of neo-colonialism and Eurocentricism; something the colonised world would not like to contend with again, though the imperial agenda of the Empire is implicit in the very processes of globalisation. European well-being does not imply the well-being of minorities and other nations outside it. Suspicion and failure prevail all over Europe owing to a sense of fear at the prospect of a shared future at the enormous cost of sacrificing national sovereignty which will be fully subsumed in a larger vision of a united Europe. National and European bureaucracies continue to behave undemocratically. It is hard to find a medium between common interest and national sovereignty. Europe has to finally go into a protracted spell of introspection.
The Hindu Sunday, Jun 26, 2005
I might sound xenophobic, but I am glad at the recent signs of disintegration of the European Union. I have never been in favour of a strong Europe because that symbolises a new round of neo-colonialism and Eurocentricism; something the colonised world would not like to contend with again, though the imperial agenda of the Empire is implicit in the very processes of globalisation. European well-being does not imply the well-being of minorities and other nations outside it. Suspicion and failure prevail all over Europe owing to a sense of fear at the prospect of a shared future at the enormous cost of sacrificing national sovereignty which will be fully subsumed in a larger vision of a united Europe. National and European bureaucracies continue to behave undemocratically. It is hard to find a medium between common interest and national sovereignty. Europe has to finally go into a protracted spell of introspection.
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