“
The European idea is only an idea of economists or of a few writers.
She does not live in the soul of the crowd.
It represents only a word, barely a concept, in no way a myth.
»
This is what Raymond Aron – and not Régis Debray – said in 1931. From the outset, he responded in the negative to “THE” question, which from the Treaty of Rome onwards would be at the heart of an endless debate between specialists. .
Can European institutions create a European people like the American Constitution created an American people?
Demos or no demos?
No demos!
Aron did not vary on this point until his death in 1983. This is what strikes us when reading the texts brought together by Joël Mouric in
L'EuropeAccording to Aron
, a large number of which were published in
Le Figaro
, to which Aron collaborated between 1947 and 1977.
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His Europe is a Europe of nations.
He takes national sentiment very seriously, and not in a bad way.
The feeling is not the interest.
The interest is without any…
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