2005-06-03
Pelo sim ou pelo não II
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday May 26, 2005
Guardian
All across Europe, we have a rash of incompatible noes. A Danish no, in defence of their generous welfare state, is quite different from a Polish no. Even the French noes are incompatible with each other. Jean-Marie Le Pen and French communists make the strangest of bedfellows. Yet one thing these French noes do have in common: the emotion of fear. Spending a few days in France last week, I found a nation gripped with fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of foreigners. Fear of change. Fear of the now proverbial "Polish plumber" taking your job, of an enlarged EU with Paris no longer in the driving seat, of a world increasingly dominated by "Anglo-Saxon liberalism". But fear is a bad counsellor.
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday May 26, 2005
Guardian
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