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Europe: the shared identity that lacks Union
Europe is not a community of meaning . We have a language, an identity, a shared historical memory. Simply put, we are not a nation. To join in a European country we should invent one, or build an empire.

No one has yet tried to produce a European nation . Many in the past have tried to set up a continental empire, with their own people at the center and the remaining people in the alternative (Napoleon), if not enslaved (Hitler). Failing.

For over half a century we are engaged in a process indefinitely and geography known as unspecified "European integration". Company dedicated to overcome the seemingly democratic nation states to determine which institutions without - and how democratic - replace them. A work in progress. Expired at least since I work in regression (1973) in the space we have integrated anti-European Community vocationally a country - Great Britain - and twenty years later invented the first coin in Maastricht with no monarch in world history.

A uniform that now circulates in 17 of the 27 EU countries (out of 51 European states conventionally baptized). Not really "single currency". Less still the engine of the European state that some of its brave founders would inevitably resulted. A coin orphan, adopted by seventeen vicegenitori we study askance at, hard to build trust, let alone political enthusiasm.

Also because of the euro, Europe is not the most fascinating . On the contrary, could become the scapegoat for our troubles. A dark Europhobia flows among Europeans of every latitude. Political entrepreneurs capitalizing on it by dubious democratic credentials. While resurface hypernationalism and particular ethnic, not just in the "enlarged" (Hungary is the extreme case), the rampant conspiracy theories and exhume the Protocols of Zion in the not-too-date versions.
If until recently the adventurers xenophobic if they took first place with the "Islamic threat" today the easy target of Le Pen's daughter, Wilders, and related Bossi is "Brussels", the Moloch which our politicians call to sacrifice in the name euro. Ten years ago, for much less than the Haider's Austria was put in the pillory Community indignation. Today Orbán of Hungary can not afford much more, in terms of choices and libertarian instincts neoirredentistici. Almost general indifference.

The eurocrisi is not purely economic-political. Its root is cultural-identity : there is no sense of shared that any policy must be based. Europeans tend not to communicate, even when they think they do. Reproach mutually negative stereotypes as if they were factual truth. Those clichés that in good weather in the back room of the soul and repress the storm explode inside and outside of us with unexpected power.

To the lack of communication, thus the pathos of intolerance, helps the Eurolingua Community : the current jargon among the officials in Brussels. Which, to defend the "reasons of state of a state that does not exist" (Enzensberger), must be very sure not to make himself understood by European municipalities. Without a hint of irony.

Hence the talk for acronyms (EAC, RTD, ENTR, TAXUD, bestowed, and so to keep the HR Directorates, sorry: DG) for untranslatable terms ( acquis communautaire , governance , Trilogue etc.) written or spoken by non-elected community leaders, but selected by national leaders to allocate unemployed former colleagues (Barroso, Van Rompuy) or between the domestic political third class files (Ashton).

The Europeanist correct damage the EU and highlights its enemies . Since Europe has erected a taboo, synonymous with mocking European Union. Thus manipulated, "Europe" is a word Orwellian expired useful to block any critical thinking about herself. While "Eurosceptic" - one who doubts the taboo Europe, would have translated the Enlightenment - is anathema to euroteologi.
A shrunken semantic which perhaps would not bend, if today relived, historians and philosophers who wanted to sketch an interpretation of European civilization of values, from Voltaire to Diderot, Hume to Robertson.

The absence of the sense of the European Union reflects the lack of identity . Never in history the people of Latvia and Cyprus, Malta and Slovakia, Estonia and Italian, British and Austrian - not to mention French and German - have lived together under one roof, to share bread and butter, thoughts and feelings.

Of course, identity is always plural. We are all relatives in this world, after Adam and Eve . Resists many of us, despite everything, a feeling of "Europeanness", however, changing and very experienced, especially when we are not in Europe. But from there to make the substrate of a political entity there is an abyss.

Perhaps one day be born a European sense of community , in different spaces and smaller EU. As long as today and not tomorrow, we Europeans, Italians in the head, we determine that the liberal and democratic character of our institutions, which they are boundaries, there is no compromise.

Dell'euroteologia The paradox is that for decades has methodically sawing, with a branch of the national states, even those Western values ​​that give them nourishment and meaning. And who today can not be hinged in a European state, if not by force or deception.

The founders explained to work for Europeans, not with them . By good tutors. In the meantime, we are a little 'grown up and, hopefully, to doubt enabled. To choose from. Democracy first, then Europe.