European values! What values? - Noemi Zarb

Like millions of other Europeans, I am grossly disappointed with the EU’s lack of moral fibre, which is precisely why the very essence of European identity is in such a crisis.

Admittedly, a lack of moral compass and the obsessive pursuit of commercial success are also worldwide problems. But the crisis in European identity goes well beyond man’s insatiable greed for money and power, because the EU continues to deny its Christian roots.

It also came up with the idea of selling EU passports, which definitely mocks European identity.

I recently came across an opinion piece in a British newspaper asserting that the notion of a European identity only made sense during the Cold War because it was fired by the warring ideologies of democracy and communism espoused by the US and the former USSR respectively.

In fact, the very same article pointed out that up to the end of the World War I in 1918, citizens in Europe (of whatever race) did not give a second thought to their European identity since they were utterly subjugated by the imperial sway that stamped European history for centuries on end.

Furthermore, the interwar years and its aftermath were too taken up with preparing for,...