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"Mr President, it is a matter of some regret that Spain, a great country that France and the French people hold very dear, has chosen the theme of ‘More Europe’. This theme does not break any new ground, as it has, after all, been compulsory for almost fifty years, and it cannot fail to cause us concern because ‘More Europe’ equates to nothing more than the constantly increasing destruction of what makes up the substance of Europe, namely the nations.
To some extent, however, Spain will not break any new ground. You are not breaking new ground, in particular, in the area that you have made your priority as a head of government, Mr Aznar; in other words, the fight against terrorism. There is something risible about combating terrorism when you appear to be doing everything possible to encourage its growth, both at a superficial and deeper level, in Europe and everywhere else in the world. An obvious example of its superficial growth is the ridiculous and criminal obsession with bringing down borders, which of course does not fail to make police controls increasingly difficult and which, above all, encourages internationalism which has always been the greatest weapon of all forms of terrorism since time immemorial.
At a deeper level, bringing down borders destroys people’s sense of national belonging, which for centuries has given them a reference point in space and time, and, in other words, a place in history. They thus rediscover their ethnic origins and begin to fight against what remains of the nation State, a fight that we also encourage on occasion. Thus, what is happening in Spain is what happens everywhere else. In our view, we can only combat Basque terrorism by asserting a broad Spanish policy on the international stage, a policy which, fortunately, Spain also has the resources to conduct in Europe, in the Mediterranean and in Latin America. However, Europe does not allow us to be self-assertive.
At a deeper level still, terrorism is both favoured and encouraged by the deep disorder into which the world is plunging under the battering that the nations are suffering as a result of the sacrosanct dogma of capitalism that is trade liberalisation. This does not only lead to the destruction of the national sense of belonging, which is also one of the sources of Islamic terrorism, but also to the building, on the misleading pretext of globalisation, of a real wall between the rich world and poor world, which has no future and is therefore in the most dire straits.
From this point of view, it is fortunately encouraging that the nations are showing signs of rebelling, particularly the nations in Europe. Italy and Germany are giving us some positive signs, Denmark and Ireland have already done so, and I am sure that France will too in the days to come. Mr Aznar, this could be your main worry in the coming six months. And if you have made a conscious choice to deny what is really happening at national level, I cannot, we cannot, wish you good luck."@en1
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