In varietate concordia (For now)

If you ask anybody "Does a people have the right to do what it decides without other countries having a say in it?" s/he would most surely answer yes. If you asked why, the answer would probably be something like "Because my government should defend my interests" or "Because that's what democracy is, having a say about your goverments policies". Well, first of all, that's not democracy, that's sovereignity (North Korea is a sovereign country, by the way). And second of all, the root of that belief is "People whose only relation whith me is paying taxes to, living under the rule of and living in the territory controled by the same organization and/or having a similar culture, by which I mean speaking the same language, eating the same type of food or having the same religion, are inmediatly more important than any other human being, and the organization we fund has the right to deny acces to the land it controls to anybody that has not been born inside it, polute all the people's atmosphere without all the people having a say and kill people that is not part of "us" as long as "we" decide it's okay"
So I find it pretty amazing that 27 countries that had just sixty years ago finished waging two world wars and a thousand religious and territorial wars managed to give up at least a bit of their sovereignity and agreed to erase their borders, have a single currency, and among other things, a single albeit weak parliament. Yes, the journey will be hard, and we will always have people like the majority of Britons, hanging to their imaginary empire, or Angela Merkel, refusing to help Greeks even if it results in the medium-run destruction of the German banks, or eastern europeans, fearing a new soviet union, or speculators but, eventually, reason will prevail (Because if it doesn't, we'll be more worried about finding non-radioactive water than about Europe's fate).
Spanish fascists said that they prefered "A red Spain to a broken Spain". I prefer a conservative Europe to a broken Europe, mainly because a broken Europe is a puppet of Chinese & American interests, and even worse, a puppet of the market, and therefore far worse than anything the European right is.