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We can see that desperate attempts are being made to build a European nation with its own national identity. Experience shows that it is not possible to create a common identity artificially. There are many examples of this, including the state of Belgium, which was created almost 180 years ago by merging Flanders and Wallonia. Despite a common royal family, flag, national anthem and currency, Belgium continues to fall apart.
EU flags, national anthems and Europe Days may appear to be symbolic questions without any great importance. However, they are part of the European Parliament’s overarching ambition, namely to build a United States of Europe. The original EU constitution, which was defeated in referendums in France and the Netherlands, contained references to, among other things, the EU’s national anthem and flag. These were deleted and the EU’s leaders put forward a ‘new’ treaty, the so-called Lisbon Treaty. So now the European Parliament is trying to take revenge and sneak in the use of EU symbols by the back door.
We consider that EU cooperation to liable to meet the same fate as the Esperanto project, the artificial language which never became a world language, but has largely died out. Identity and unity are created by the people, not by an elite.
We have therefore voted against this report."@en1
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