On social media, the upcoming generation is expressing more European solidarity than the continent has seen in decades.
A futuristic EU soldier stands guard, laser blaster at the ready. European fighter jets zoom through the sky over thumping Eurodance beats. An imaginary map shows a vastly enlarged EU, swallowing everything from Greenland to the Caucasus.
Welcome to the wild world of pro-Europe online propaganda, where the EU isn’t a fractious club of 27 countries but a juiced-up superpower on par with China or the United States, only wiser and more cultured.
This type of content, which re-imagines the EU as a pan-European empire, a European Federation or the United States of Europe — take your pick — has flooded social media platforms over the past two years, garnering billions of views collectively on X, TikTok and Instagram as the EU has reeled from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a U.S.-EU trade deal decried as “humiliation” for Brussels in many parts of Europe.
Hmm, shall we look to history to see past efforts and the results of centralising power in Europe?
I really don’t get why we’d want to emulate any of the large federations. Russia? China? USA? Nope nope nope
A cell structure of independent states is inherently a better structure than a blob where you only have to get one bad leader for the whole thing to be fucked.
Like Viktor Orbán?
I find it bizarre that the EU has no way to expel members.
It doesn’t really need to. It just closes the money tap and waits for the fad to pass.
So that’s what the right wing will do if they get control of the Commission then?
Yep, centralization isn’t a good thing.
If you read the article long enough, they go mask off and eventually admit the movement has two major factions: “centrists” and outright racists who want a white Christian empire.
Seems everyone supporting this wants it as a vehicle to move the EU to the right, which is why they want it centralized. It’s easier to buy off one leader than 27 different ones at the same time.