OTTAWACITIZEN.COM: Europe's champion versus the nit-pickers - "you won't know how good you have it until its gone" - by Keith Spicer

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Europe's champion versus the nit-pickers - "you won't know how good you have it until its gone" - by Keith Spicer

Europe's anthem shouldn't be Beethoven-Schiller's Ode to Joy, with its, "All men will become brothers under thy gentle wing." It should be Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi with, "You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

"Too many Europeans, aping shallow leaders, barely recognize Europe in their lives -- much less bless it for their happiness. Amid scattered celebrations of a uniting Europe's 50th anniversary, are Europeans losing their great historic vision?

Europe's petty demons have been crawling out from under rocks. Many politicians, especially in France, Britain, Poland and the Czech Republic, almost daily denigrate Europe. They play parish-pump politics, blaming "Brussels" (the EU capital) for anything they can't fix at home. Note EU-Digest: We can not let the "European Dream" of peace and prosperity become a "pipe-dream" because of ignorant self centered inward looking politicians in Britain, the Netherlands, France, Poland, and the Czech Republic. These countries do not form the majority among the 27 EU partner members and must not be allowed to destruct it."