Here's something for Bernd to chew on. It was written by a Hungarian doctor of philosophy, in 1940. I feel it belongs here, due to EU, the events going down, and the endeavors of certain interest groups. I'm hoping to post this in two or three parts. Here's the first.

[...] Europe - this have always lived in her children consciously or unconsciously, controlled their thoughts, feelings, and actions, their whole attitude - is a great spiritual unity, with common culture, ideals, and final goals, but with sovereign and independent members, nations, whom cohere with each other in Europe's unity, but not dependent on each other*; they are all obligated to serve the European spiritual unity and her goals, but not each other's interest. Europe a colorful unity. Who turns against her unity is a bad European, but him also a bad European, whom wants to erase her colorfulness. Europe's final essence in her Latinity too is the Greek heritage: the united Hellas of the polities stubbornly defending their sovereignity: the universality and individuality wonderful, and marvelously fertile pairing. The multitude of unity, and multitude in unity: the Greek philosophy's great question, and the eternal secret of the Greek. And the secret of Europe.
[...] Hellas wasn't sent into grave. Her spirit lives even today. This spirit could have been killed only by the tyranny, which eradicates the colorfulness. He who doesn't understand that harmony is the tension of the opposing, won't understand the Greek, because that is harmony. Harmony, tension of the opposing, symphony. And not uniformity, the inarticulated monotony, if not deadly silence. This is the essence of Europe too. And who does not understand this, and who wants to extinguish this, he does not understand Europe; he isn't her real child, but enemy of her. Europe is the homeland of folks indeed! Folks, nations - plural! -, and not not folk or one nation. Neither one. Neither one has the right to climb over the others, suppress them, eradicate their individual characteristics. These kinds of pursuits are sins against the spirit of Europe.