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Europe Yes, Europe No!

In ancient times they referred vaguely to the lands north of Greece and the Alps, inhabited by “barbarians” as “Europe”. It wasn’t until Charlemagne’s time that a cultural, unifying concept of the continent began to take shape, but for another 1000 years it was only a bloody battlefield. After World War II the European nations attempted an union that was more economic than political, to prevent the risk of further devastating conflicts. In this spirit the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the Pact of Rome and the EEC were born. Now European citizens can vote for the European Parliament, and many politicians are riding the wave of popular discontent for their own domestic purposes. Europe has been and remains unquestionably fundamental for all the environmental regulations it has enacted. Let’s hope the sterile protest doesn’t win.

Ugo Nazzarro

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