People Increasingly Fear the Annihilation of European Identity

"The French language is no longer the exclusive property of the French nation (...) and should be renamed to reflect its 'Creole nature',” said Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of France's far-left party, La France Insoumise (LFI). However, in contrast to him, a rapidly growing number of people —and not only in Eastern Europe— are fearing that European and national identities are in danger.

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According to Jean-Luc Melenchon, there is no ethnically fixed definition that would assign the French language to a specific group, as it was spread through colonialism.

“If we want French to be a common language, it has to be a Creole language,”

he said at a conference on the future of the French-speaking world organised by Greens MP Aurelien Tache.

Melenchon first raised the idea of the “Creolization” of French during his 2022 presidential campaign. According to the LFI leader, French should be seen as a cultural and political object, and could be embedded globally through the Francophonie, the Brussels Signal reports . “The French themselves do not realize that they are Francophones,” he said. “They speak their mother tongue and often do not pay attention to their surroundings. The truth is that the French language has long ceased to belong exclusively to France or the French people,” he added:

“Therefore, the French language is no longer the exclusive property of the French nation—and certainly not of those who wish to preserve French identity through the language.”

Melenchon’s vision is to make France a “universal nation.”

“We see that France is not a language, since it is shared by 29 nations; nor a religion, since there are six religions in our country (the first being Christianity, the second Islam); nor any other alleged national characteristic,”

he said.

Europe No Longer Defends Its Values

“Europe has committed itself to cultural relativism, no longer defends its values, and appears to no longer resist mass migration, mainly from Islamic regions. The face of our continent, at least in the West, is changing drastically. It is becoming increasingly obvious: free societies and open borders are incompatible,”

writes German journalist Claudio Casula in an opinion piece published on the German news portal Nius.

He recalls that

nine years ago, Martin Schulz, a Social Democrat and then-President of the European Parliament, said in a speech on migration at the Heidelberg College of Jewish Studies: “What the refugees bring to us is more valuable than gold. It is something we have lost somewhere along the way in recent years: this conviction, even the unwavering belief in the European dream.”

Casula raises several questions in this regard:

  • Was it ‘we’ who lost the European dream?
  • And is it really those migrants—mainly from the Islamic world—who are going to revive it?
  • Did these migrants really bring the ‘European dream’ with them? Or rather, the dream of the Islamization of Europe?
  • Do they believe in the European dream, as Schulz so pathetically evoked? Or do they believe in Allah, the one God who commands them to convert or fight the unbelievers?
  • Do they perhaps want to abolish this Europe because they do not share the values of the Enlightenment—especially freedom, equality, the rule of law and human rights?”

Casula also points out that studies show—and it is becoming increasingly evident in the streets—that Muslim immigrants are not dreaming of Europe at all; on the contrary, they despise the West and its culture.

“On the streets and squares of our cities—and always in the cities, not in the countryside—radical Muslims demand the caliphate and do not hide their aversion, often hatred, toward the West and its way of life. The fact is: Europe, once characterized by a proud awareness of its cultural and historical uniqueness—the principle of ‘European exceptionalism’—now seems to have distanced itself from its roots. This self-confidence has been replaced by the cultural relativism propagated by the ‘progressives,’ which considers all ways of life as equal and has thereby paved the way for chaos,”

he writes.

Support For Preserving European and National Identities Comes From Surprising Places

The CDU in Wolfenbuttel, Germany, wants the German and EU flags to be permanently flown in front of schools and government offices. This is revealed in a proposal by the CDU’s district parliamentary group to be discussed on June 30. According to the CDU, this would “visibly symbolize the values upon which our country is built: freedom, unity, democracy and the rule of law.”

The proposal places schools at the center, highlighting them as key places for education and political socialization. The CDU group explains: the presence of flags is a pedagogical tool to help young people understand democratic core values and foster the development of their identity with Germany and Europe.

The proposal coming from the CDU is unusual, as the party has been a staunch supporter of open border policies for years.

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