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"en.20120329.36.4-253-000"2
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"Madam President, if we want a picture of the culmination of the post-national dream which actuates so many people in this House, look at the provinces that the EU runs as colonies: Bosnia and, above all, Kosovo. Even in its trappings and its symbolism, you see the post-national nature of the state. Its flag is a version of the EU flag with stars on a blue background; its national anthem when it was first independent was Beethoven’s Ninth and then, when they eventually came up with their own, it was a wordless tune called Europe.
The whole thing has been put together in order to prevent the national principle. I favoured the right of the Albanians of Kosovo to determine their own future however they wanted: if they wanted independence, good luck to them. If they wanted union with Albania or confederation with Serbia, that was for them to decide. Of course, the flipside of that is that the Serbs in Kosovo have their own right of self-determination. In fact, we have a
border now. But accepting the validity
of that border would call into question the intellectual foundation of the European project, built as it is on the presumption that national loyalties are transient, arbitrary and discreditable. God help us when, like so many past empires, the EU applies the lessons learnt in its colonies to its metropolitan core."@en1
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