by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 4, 1998

“The real divisions of our time,” writes the scholar Christian Kopff, “are not between left and right but between nations and the globalist delusion.” Thus, we all have a stake in the experiment to create a giant artificial nation called the “United States of Europe.”

Why artificial? Because, unlike France, Germany and Italy, the European Union possesses none of the attributes of a nation — a common language, culture, history and heroes. Europe’s peoples have been separate for centuries. Unlike America, this new Europe is simply a customs union tied together by bureaucracy and greed. As Ernst Renan wrote long ago, “A Zollverein is not a fatherland” — a customs union is not a country.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 4, 1998

“The real divisions of our time,” writes the scholar Christian Kopff, “are not between left and right but between nations and the globalist delusion.” Thus, we all have a stake in the experiment to create a giant artificial nation called the “United States of Europe.”

Why artificial? Because, unlike France, Germany and Italy, the European Union possesses none of the attributes of a nation — a common language, culture, history and heroes. Europe’s peoples have been separate for centuries. Unlike America, this new Europe is simply a customs union tied together by bureaucracy and greed. As Ernst Renan wrote long ago, “A Zollverein is not a fatherland” — a customs union is not a country.