The EU is seeking a future for itself

The Italian journalist and writer Beppe Severigni calls on History to defend the European project. "The future of the European Union will be at stake over the next few hours. We had heard and read about it: the German revolving presidency was determined to take apart the Constitution, a text that no longer carries that name. Despite being approved by eighteen countries, it was abandoned because of the French and Dutch referendums in 2005. Today there is nothing but talk about a new mini-treaty aimed at giving the new Europe of 27 countries a set of new rules, seeing as the current ones don't work anymore ... . [As is recalled by the Hungarian writer Imre Kertész], Europe was born out of an historic decision: the decision of Athens to oppose the Persians. Do we really have to wait for the Persians to come back to understand that it is good, right and necessary to stay together?"

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