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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Do you have a recent link or is this perhaps a Farage fantasy? <SNIP>

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/pres.../speech_24_564

A selected paragraph from the 2024 WDL speech follows.

But too little has been said about his faith in Europe as a community of destiny. As we know, Jacques Delors was a believer. A man of faith. A man convinced that human beings fulfil their destiny by engaging with society, helping their neighbour. After all, he had seen with his own eyes the painful history of Europe and its tragic human consequences. That shaped his conviction that our eyes should be firmly fixed on the goal of ever-closer union between the nations and peoples that make up Europe, amid peace, freedom and solidarity. So a moral and historical mission as much as a pragmatic solution to the challenges we face. As he said himself in a speech to the European Parliament: ‘Europe, despite the risk of succumbing to its divisions, remains wonderfully rich in its diversity. We must preserve this diversity, or even better, help it to flourish, for the common good'. For Jacques Delors, this community of destiny had to be based on the principle of subsidiarity. Respecting pluralism meant respecting diversity, as he would say. The European Union he built was not an alternative to the nation state. And we see this philosophy reflected in our Union's motto today: ‘United in Diversity'.

I was amused by the wordplay on "subsidiarity" and "pluralism" "diversity". "Ever closer union" is enshrined in the EU's articles. The weasel words used to calm people down are not really honest.