The United States of Europe can only be the natural consequence of the growth and development of a European consciousness. Being European doesn’t mean to occupy a certain geographic area in Europe. Being European means thinking as a European, living in a country with European beliefs and traditions, and feeling as a European. Being European is an inside- out process which means to develop in each citizen a European consciousness – an inner sense of European patriotism – a conscious, eternal idea of a united nation called “Europe”.
As the founding fathers of the United States built that nation around life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, each individual, each European must see himself as not a citizen of an individual state but for what he is in this moment – as a European. The job of the leaders is to instil the principles upon which to build.
States and nations must be conceived of as a whole if United Europe is to survive.
“The solution comes from inside. What happens ‘outside’ is only a consequence. European Consciousness is not something that you will be drawn into because first the others think of it and you agree. European Consciousness needs to be created.
