Without the EU, we would have a hundred villages in Europe

The rise of nationalism in Europe, created 60 years ago to eliminate them, is today a threat to the continent. From Germany to Spain, via France, Great Britain, Belgium, or Hungary, populist identity movements spread the poison of new divisions and borders, frightening all who have read some history books. The European Union is a dam of control against preachers of exclusion, hatred and lack of solidarity.

The current danger is called Catalonia, but Europe has taught separatists a lesson, remembering that its role is to wipe out the border lines, not to create others. And that her job is to unite, not separate. United in diversity, as it has clearly been said, Europe promotes the unification of states and citizens with different cultures and languages, but not peoples with irredentistic identities. And much less those who try to redefine themselves in hatred of their neighbors, a practice that is inseparably nationalism.

The 28 states answered that there is no room for Catalonia of former President Carles Puigdemont. For this, the same ones who begged Europe, to sell impossible independence, have become critical of the BE, the decadent <x0-seat club, outdated”, as Puigdemont, escaped in the heart of Europe, said, as not even a single European leader expects.

There's something positive about this sad story. Many Spaniards who realized late that it is not possible to be both nationalist and left have now learned that you cannot be both nationalist and pro-European. The teaching of Catalan separatists had a brutal precedent at Brex. Xenophobia and search for alleged missing sovereignty, has put the British in a dead end, where they have everything to lose. Theresa May is seen by many Spanish as Arthur Mass's British version, the Catalan strateg, who made his party irrelevant and pushed his country into the abyss. Now it is Puigdemont that follows the uncertain British route and, angry with Brussels, speaks of a referendum to decide whether the Catalans want to leave the EU.

This disease also infects France and Germany, where the most efficient drug has been a European response. The parties supported the most pro-European candidate, Emmanuel Macron, to close the road to Le Pen's nationalism. France's president was the first to mobilise Europe against the Catalan tsunami. And he is the most important leader in Europe. Even in Germany, a battle is under way against the populist nationalism of the far right Afd.

The wave of independence of countries came after the collapse of empires and wars. If the crisis and Brex had caused the EU empire to explode, an anti-nationalist dam would have escaped. How many countries would we have in Europe? According to Juncker, a hundred <x0... /The world.al