Europe

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani starts from a distinction: he fights the European Union because he loves Europe, whose culture also includes the Russia of Tchaikovsky and Dostoevsky1. He disputes the argument that "Europe means peace": for him, peace after 1945 rests on the balance of terror between two non-European powers. War returns to Yugoslavia as soon as the Soviet Union falls, with Germany's recognition of Slovenia. In his view, the Brussels institutions were built to bypass states where Gaullists and communists dominated, and to give Germany a chance at revenge. He also discusses the whitewashing, in Europe, of Nazi officials such as Reinhard Höhn, who founded a business school, and he rejects the theory of the "two horrors" that the European Parliament has institutionalised2. In 2026 he takes up the same thesis: "their Europe means war." He accuses European heads of state of wrecking every prospect of peace in Ukraine and links this stance to a globalised fascism and to NATO3. In one session, a guest argues in front of him that Europe will only become real by becoming a nation-state4.

1. 1l'U.E c'est la guerre ! - extrait (5min)18 Sept 2014
2. 2Proust30 Jan 2020
3. 3Leur "Europe", c'est la guerre.28 Feb 2026
4. 4Ce soir, on repolitise. 1ère partie12 Mar 2018

Introduction produced automatically from the 5 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.