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You wrote a big post for nothing because it is called straw-man post; arguing against a point that I never made.I'm not trying to make him feel bad. I am merely telling the truth. Now, if that truth happens to be bad news for him, then I can't help it. It's purely co-incidental.
The term 'European nationalists' itself is a misnomer. There might be French, German, Greek, British nationalists groups working in their own country and they happen to be Europeans but using the term 'European nationalists' isn't rooted in factual accuracy, because it gives the impression that there is a group of people who are rallying in the name of pan-Europeanism. This is clearly not the case. Europeans are more divided than ever with Greece wanting to exit, Britan threatening to go its own way, Germany playing hardball, and France doing its own thing as a part of its 'strategic autonomy' doctrine. Clearly only a cynic would call them a pan-European force. The truth is that for pan-Europeanism to survive, regional nationalistic movements have to die down. I don't see that happening. On the contrary, like you said, nationalist groups are gaining momentum. There is a rising sense among nationalists of all flavors that they have been given a raw deal by being part of the EU. If EU as a cohesive unit has to survive, then member states have to give up some of the privileges that come with individualism. If individual nations pursue their own interests, then it will be the end of the EU. The British have intelligently tweak the security paradigm of EU such that they took all the benefits of belonging to a larger group as long as it was beneficial to them, now when the time has come to fulfill their end of commitments (take migrant quotas, for example, or dodging Naval commitments for anti-piracy operations), they are threatening to leave the EU. This has left the other nations in EU enraged. These nations are the ones taking the full onslaught of the African and M.E migration while Britain has no legal commitments despite all of them being part of the same union.
So the British have made it clear that if the EU has to survive, someone else has to 'take one for the team'. I highly doubt that the team would want to stay together if their interests are undermined so brazenly. This is why, Greece is willing to leave, Germany is willing to leave, and we all know what's going on with Scotland.
I disagree with your opinion about a pan-European solidarity emerging while the facts point to a diametrically opposite trend. Keep that pity, you might need it in the future.
I used european as an umbrella term of convenience not as a pan- term, This is obvious from my post.
Even you seem to have sub-consciously understood this when you say: "The truth is that for pan-Europeanism to survive, regional nationalistic movements have to die down. I don't see that happening. On the contrary, like you said, nationalist groups are gaining momentum."
Also "keep that pity", I might need it in the future?
I never had pity for anything.