When debating, it is important to pay attention to words and their meanings to ensure they are correct. In the countless confrontations (fortunately verbal), discussions, and other talks about Europe, whether for or against, the word “sovereign” is heard time and again.
To return to the starting point, one must choose words carefully and align them with what they want to express: for instance, one should not confuse sovereignty, which has nothing to do with sovereignty-ism.
Why? Because sovereignty, both national and European, is primarily synonymous with freedom and peace. Sovereignty-ism, on the other hand, is inseparable from nationalism.
Therefore, we must not back down even an inch on the necessary construction of a sovereign Europe, because while nationalism may not be synonymous with war as it once was, we must avoid it becoming synonymous with a return to populism and extremism, sometimes gripped by identity temptations.
By celebrating a sovereign Europe that has built a society of progress, we also respond to all the decline theorists who claim that France would be much happier closed off from the world, isolated by imaginary borders, clinging to a Judeo-Christian identity that never existed.
Finally, it should be said unambiguously: the only possible path for those who are not convinced of Europe is to leave Europe, quite simply. There is no other way.
Leaving Europe and … leaving democracy.
