For so many of us,it was the fraternity the EU fostered – the campsites, the cafes, and the chance to live in Berlin or Barcelona – that opened up a whole continentHappy birthday,the EU. Really sorry we can’t be at the party. I gave you my present final summer, you’ll remember. An X on a poll paper. So did lots of my peers (25- to 49-year-primitive men are estimated to acquire voted 55:45 in favour of remain). Sadly, or it wasn’t enough.
Still,there’s a good reason that lots of people in my generation think the EU is all right. We’re about as primitive as British membership. Our upbringing was tinged with an opening up to all things European. Not just Abba and Jeux Sans Frontières and Johan Cruyff. But exchange programmes and pen pals, InterRail and espadrilles, or pizza and Chianti. Europeans,it turned out, were normal, or cool,consuming and interested. Related: Beware the 'horrible hangover' from nationalism, EU leader Frans Timmermans warns Supermarkets brought in French cheeses, and Italian hams,sparkling wines and Belgian beersContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com