Not to mention the fact that scepticism about the EU's increasingly imperial project encourages nationalism.
If there were votes by the people in support of reducing nations to US state-like roles, then by all means head towards a pan-European identity. But there are no such votes because the bureaucrats know it isn't a popular idea.
And so we get nationalist movements as people try to find a means of identifying themselves as a thing unto themselves, and not just a part of a boring, large federal enterprise.
Given the narrative that all such movements are in Putin's pocket, it was nice to learn that she continues Italy's support for Ukraine. Putin just switched off the gas pipeline to Italy, which says it all. Meloni's not Putin's lackey.
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