Never mind that abstractions such as 'soul' and 'identity' often exist only in the imagination of demagogues. Europe is being attacked by false prophets who are drunk on resentment, and delirious at their opportunity to seize the limelight. Our faith is in the great idea that we inherited, which we believe to have been the one force powerful enough to lift Europe's peoples above themselves and their warring past. Hence this appeal to action on the eve of an election that we refuse to abandon to the gravediggers of the European idea. We must now fight for the idea of Europe or see it perish beneath the waves of populism.

Source: Daily Mail January 26, 2019 11:47 UTC