Nationalism is a self-destruction
Concern in the EU parliament over the brown wave
Aftonbladet leader board is independent socialist.
BRUSSELS IN the EU parliament prepares to the brits crashing out of the EUROPEAN union, without any ready-made plan for what will happen then. It is a part of the unsettled buzz in the huge building in Brussels. This prior to a EUROPEAN election in which nationalism increasingly become a topic of conversation.
” Nationalism makes us weak because it is constantly looking for enemies and despise the other. It makes it extremely difficult to cooperate with other countries to jointly ensure our freedom, said the EUROPEAN commission’s first vice-president, S-politician Frans Timmermans, in a speech at the european day of remembrance of nazism and stalinism victims.
Europe has a brutal track record. The worst wars the world has experienced began here. How can we be of our history? The first world war is for many young people an abstract phenomenon, which is not made into a movie as often as the second world war. It begins to be very few left who witnessed the Holocaust. The responsibility to tell and remind rests heavily on the survivors. The more, the war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s are fresh in the memory. Even where the led nationalism to ethnic cleansing. People sållades out and persecuted. When the serbs took Srebrenica in July 1995, they killed over 8,000 civilians, bosniak, muslim, boys and men. They did this, inter alia, by forcing them, tightly packed, in school buildings and warehouses. Which executed the with bullets or the soldiers threw in grenades. The corpses skyfflades down in mass graves. A total of demanded war over 100 000 lives. You would think that Europe, with its immense wounds after nationalism rampage, should have learned.
But the extreme right is now strongly represented in the EU parliament, from the Greek nazi party Golden Dawn to the right-wing populist French Front National, british Ukip and The sweden democrats. In the united kingdom suggests Ukip’s special prisons for muslims. Hate crime in the country is increasing and many brexitivrare voted just to stop all immigration. The nationalist intoxication kept telling the british that all migration was from the evil one, that the country is self-sufficient. The votes from the predominantly older and low-skilled opened for brexit.
Medicinbrist and long tullköer
In the coming week the vote in the british parliament as to whether the negotiated utträdesavtalet. There will be no, so is the space for further negotiations extremely small. At the same time is the possibility of re-election in the issue is largely non-existent. The effects of the british in a avtalslöst brexit can be monumental. There are medicinbrist (especially insulin), the affected fishing industry, greatly influenced boat and air traffic, long tullköer in ports and a hard blow to agriculture.
Nationalism siamese twin is protectionism, which is Frans Timmermans stated in his speech. You can also call it an economically self-destructive behaviour.
Many voices in the EU parliament expresses its fear of nationalism rampage. To fight back the forces must be one of the main objectives in the elections in may. We already know where the nationalist path. Right into the darkness.