The Spectator

Letters | 22 June 2016

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issue 25 June 2016

European identity

Sir: Alexander Chancellor (Long life, 18 June) echoes the widely accepted view of the European Union as a ‘bulwark against the nationalism that is rising again’. The European project was, of course, conceived as a means of averting the catastrophes that nationalism wreaked upon Europe during the 20th century.

However, in practice the EU has stoked nationalism within its constituent member states.

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