Those who remove the European flag from their public building do so as a symbolic (and legitimate) protest against the bureaucratic, progressive, and often anti‑national suffocation of Brussels.
But one must not mistake the lever of contestation: the European flag is one of the few references to our civilization within the European institution.
Created by the Frenchman Arsène Heitz – a fervent Catholic – this flag draws inspiration from the miraculous medal and the12 stars of the Virgin Mary's crown.
It points to what the European Union should be, above all, a political framework of a civilization.
Mélenchon himself was not mistaken, when in2017, spotting a European flag at the National Assembly, he laughed: “Are we forced to tolerate this? (…) This is the French Republic here, it’s not… the Virgin Mary.”
Our task must be to give an identity dimension back to the European project: the European flag is therefore not a symbol to be removed, but to be claimed in the face of the lack of soul of the technocratic EU. __📲 Share on X!
Translated from French, view original