Roman Vampyre Hun?
It is an anagram of the name of the man who is now my President. But these are his wise words:
“The universal values which are in force in Europe, and which are fundamental values of Christianity, will lose vigor with the entry of a large Islamic country such as Turkey.”
He makes a monthly Benedictine retreat. So, is he trying to create a Holy Roman EU? That is most unlikely. In August, the CSU argued that a stronger say for the German Parliament over EU decision-making should not only be embedded in new legislation but also in the German Constitution. The CSU is a very Catholic party indeed: pro-life, pro-family, pro-worker, anti-war, at least broadly Distributist, the lot.
As in, for example, several Polish cases, or that of the Mouvement pour la France of Philippe de Villiers, the more Catholic, and thus committed to Christendom, a party is, the more hostile it is to the grotesque parody of Christendom that is the EU, itself part of “the West” as defined by the neoconservative movement rather than the True West that is Christendom.
Well your maxim is very easy to disprove with your own examples. The French MPF now accepts the EU, it is only opposed to deepening integration. The Front National still opposes it and the Catholic faction is a mere minority thereof.
And the CSU was always wildly pro-EU. Only in recent years have they become relative sceptics. And the Italian Christian Democrats were always charter members of the European centralisation project. The social democrats came later, after they were totally co-opted by the globalists.
“The French MPF now accepts the EU”
Not in any form that will ever exist in actual fact. In this, they are like some other Catholics, such as Stuart Reid of this parish.
“The Front National still opposes it”
No. Again, it is in favor of an unrealistic idea of thing. But in favor of the principle nonetheless.
“the Catholic faction is a mere minority thereof”
Thank God. They shouldn’t be in it at all. And they certainly get nothing out of it. Like the GOP, on the latter point.
“And the CSU was always wildly pro-EU”
Again, an idea, not the reality.
“Only in recent years have they become relative sceptics”
But they really have, as reality has caught up with them. Unlike the Tories, who pretend to have become “relative sceptics” when they have not done any such thing.
“Italian Christian Democrats”
Well, they had other things going on…
“The social democrats came later, after they were totally co-opted by the globalists”
As in so many countries, including mine.
David,
You are right that certain Christian parties had other reasons to support EU integration, and in principle pan-Europeanism is not wrong. However, almost all the CD parties stand behind it. I am glad that Van Rompuy was chosen over Blair, but at the end of the day, he will be working to enforce the will of European finance capital and vulturish globalisation.
I won’t spend long on this as it is not too important (I am sure you would agree) but the MPF, which, yes, did have the same European policy as the FN, has now evolved to a standard Eurosceptic position. Of course, they don’t support the EU as it is now, and of course they have never claimed European cooperation is wrong. However, they have evolved to the point of no longer opposing EU membership for France, whereas the FN retains its position. And of course the FN desires a cooperation of European nations, as is logical for Europe for obvious geopolitical reasons.
I do not see why you always denigrate the National Front. The MPF has certain elements of neoconservatism. Of course they are not 25% as bad. In no way are they globalists, and they backed Chirac on Iraq, unlike the free-market extremists and certain Zionist Socialists. Their problem is namely in their emphasis on Islam as a root of world evil. In this, they approach your declared enemy Geert Wilders and certain blowhard Tories. The MPF also declares itself liberal in domestic economics, meaning that they s’éloignent from Catholic Social Thought. The FN is a nationalist party that does not attempt to demonise Islam first and has an increasing scepticism of liberal capitalism and the armies which re-enforce it.
Plus, Alain de Benoist and the neopagans have abandoned the FN, so I do not see why Catholics should not choose the latter.
A final point could be your equation of Catholicism with Christendom, when, if I were just to judge by targeted countries over the past 15 years, or perhaps 500, Orthodox Christianity seems to be the faith under direct fire by both the liberals and neocons to me.
David,
What is your opinion of Daniel Hannan? My wife’s family (Americans) follow his speeches as much as they can, but I always sense he opposes EU integration for all the wrong reasons.