Pax Romana EU Roman Empire

Alliansen, EMU och det Östliga Partnerskapet
Rolf Englund blog 2010-08-29

Rise of the Fourth Reich, how Germany is using the financial crisis to conquer Europe
Daily Mail 17th August 2011

Nationalstaten kontra Europa. Det är det klassiska temat i EU-debatten.
Richard Swartz essä om det habsburgska imperiet i "Mot en kosmopolitisk framtid?"
Ulla Gudmundson, författare och diplomat, DN 26/5 2007

At Tuesday's press conference in Strasbourg, the Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso was asked what the European Union would be after the new reform treaty has been negotiated and agreed.
His answer: Europe is an empire, a non-imperial one, must be said. But still, an empire.
EUX.TV 10/7 2007

Hitler och den Habsburgska Unionen (HU)

I den utmärkta tidskriften Fokus, den 28 augusti 2009, publiceras ett utdrag ur en ny bok av den engelske historikern Richard Overy
där han ställer frågan om varför det utbröt ett allmänt europeiskt krig i september 1939.

Hitler var, skriver han, uppslukad av tanken på att ur Östeuropa mejsla fram en större och grymmare version av det habsburgska
imperiet, beväpnad med en ny ekonomisk modell som kallades Grossraumwirtschaft (en gemensam marknad för ett stort område).
Rolf Englund blog 9/9 2009

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Otto von Habsburg var personligen tveksam till Maastrichtfördraget, som reglerar eurovalutan, när det diskuterades för tjugo år sedan.
Den som i Sverige då var kritisk sattes på undantagsbänk av regeringen Bildt.
"Europa ska växa som ett träd, inte som en skyskrapa". Det var hans /Otto von Habsburgs/ återkommande uppmaning.
Carl-Johan Westholm, 15 september 2011

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Habsburgs picknick och slutet på järnridån och kommunismen
Rolf Englund blog 2009-08-16

Otto von Habsburg

Archduchess Walburga of Austria

Kommentar av Rolf Englund:
EU har redan delvis återupprättat det Habsburgska väldet genom att skapa en region där Österrike, Ungern och
delar av det tidigare habsburgska väldet på Balkan ingår.
INTERREG III B dient - auf der Basis großräumiger Zusammenschlüsse europäischer Regionen - der transnationalen Zusammenarbeit zwischen nationalen, regionalen und lokalen Behörden zur Förderung eines hohen Maßes an räumlicher Integration innerhalb Europas.

Mer om InterregIII

Mer än 600 östtyskar flyr den 19 augusti 1989 från Ungern till Österrike.
De ungerska gränssoldaterna vänder ryggen till när järnridån öppnas på glänt.
Tre månader senare faller Berlinmuren och Europa återförenas.
SvD, reporter Tomas Lundin, 15 augusti 2009

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Poles furious the European Commission forgot about “Solidarity”
The European Commission has produced a clip for the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism,
but it forgot to mention that it all started in Poland.
“Solidarity”, Lech Walesa and the events of 1989 are completely absent.
The rare shots from Poland show general Jaruzelski, who introduced martial law in 1981.
Dominika Pszczolkowska, EU-Observer blog May 18th, 2009

Idag för 20 år sedan (27 juni) klippte den dåvarande Ungerske utrikesminister Gyula Horn och hans Österrikiske kollega för första gången i taggtråden mellan länderna.
Den 19 augusti följde Paneuropa Picknicken som öppnade gränsen oåterkalleligt.
Walburga blog 27 juni 2009

Walburga Habsburg Douglas, moderat riksdagskvinna från Malmköping i Sörmland, deltog i picknicken 1989.
Hon var, 31 år gammal, där å sin pappas, dr Otto von Habsburg (ärkehertig och kronprins av Österrike-Ungern) vägnar. Walburga Habsburg Douglas är yngsta dotter till Otto von Habsburg, och Regina av Sachsen-Meiningen och Karl I, Österrikes siste kejsare, är därmed hennes farfar.
Hon deltar också i minnesceremonierna och har ett eget anförande på tisdag.
På sin blogg ”walburgasblogg.blogspot.com" berättar hon om picknicken:
”Och det var här som det första hålet klipptes i taggtråden som var en del av järnridån mellan två regimer, mellan två ideologier och mellan frihet och förtryck.”

Rolf Englund:
Ett av mina bestående minnen kommer att vara när jag
under folkomröstningskampanjen om EMU, på torget i Flen,
inför ett tjugotal åskådare, de flesta antagligen asylsökande somalier,
debatterade EMU med Walburga Douglas (m), född Habsburg. Hon var för EMU.

Walburga Habsburg Douglas (m)
Ledamot i Utrikesutskottet

The fascinating story about
The Pan-European Picnic, and the opening of the border 11th of September 1989
Very soon the news arrived that it was Walburga, the daughter of Otto von Habsurg, to represent the second sponsor of the event at the picnic, at Sopronpuszta.
Read the full story here

Pan-European Picnic From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic

Anf. 101 Utrikesminister CARL BILDT (m):
Fru talman! Jag är smickrad över Walburgas tilltro till mig att reda ut Balkan på en minut, men jag ska göra ett försök.
Läs mer här

The second problem, Bolkestein warned, is that immigration is
turning the E.U. into "an Austro-Hungarian empire on a grand scale."
University of Leiden, Days before the third anniversary of 9/11 2004

EU riskerar att upprepa det habsburgska misstaget
EU är i dag varken en politisk eller ekonomisk stormakt.
EU:s föregångare, Österrike-Ungern, försökte hålla skenet uppe.
Men bättre är att se sanningen i vitögat.
Kay Glans, Chefredaktör och ansvarig utgivare, tidskriften Axess

Europas sista sommar. Vem startade första världskriget?
Dick Harrison SvD 11/11 (vapenstilleståndsdagen) 2004

Fråga inte vad Rom har gjort för dig, utan vad du kan göra för Rom.
DNs politiske chefredaktör 30/5 2005

The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition -- December 24, 1998
Editorial In Hoc Anno Domini This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar. Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm of the Roman law was long. Everywhere there was stability, in government and in society, for the centurions saw that it was so. But everywhere there was something else, too. There was oppression--for those who were not the friends of Tiberius Caesar. There was the tax gatherer to take the grain from the fields and the flax from the spindle to feed the legions or to fill the hungry treasury from which divine Caesar gave largess to the people. There was the impressor to find recruits for the circuses. There were executioners to quiet those whom the Emperor proscribed. What was a man for but to serve Caesar? There was the persecution of men who dared think differently, who heard strange voices or read strange manuscripts. There was enslavement of men whose tribes came not from Rome, disdain for those who did not have the familiar visage. And most of all, there was everywhere a contempt for human life. What, to the strong, was one man more or less in a crowded world? Then, of a sudden, there was a light in the world, and a man from Galilee saying, Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's. And the voice from Galilee, which would defy Caesar, offered a new Kingdom in which each man could walk upright and bow to none but his God. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. And he sent this gospel of the Kingdom of Man into the uttermost ends of the earth. So the light came into the world and the men who lived in darkness were afraid, and they tried to lower a curtain so that man would still believe salvation lay with the leaders. But it came to pass for a while in divers places that the truth did set man free, although the men of darkness were offended and they tried to put out the light. The voice said, Haste ye. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you, for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. Along the road to Damascus the light shone brightly. But afterward Paul of Tarsus, too, was sore afraid. He feared that other Caesars, other prophets, might one day persuade men that man was nothing save a servant unto them, that men might yield up their birthright from God for pottage and walk no more in freedom. Then might it come to pass that darkness would settle again over the lands and there would be a burning of books and men would think only of what they should eat and what they should wear, and would give heed only to new Caesars and to false prophets. Then might it come to pass that men would not look upward to see even a winter's star in the East, and once more, there would be no light at all in the darkness. And so Paul, the apostle of the Son of Man, spoke to his brethren, the Galatians, the words he would have us remember afterward in each of the years of his Lord: Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition -- December 24, 1998

Editorial
In Hoc Anno Domini

This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since
When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar.

Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm of the Roman law was long. Everywhere there was stability, in government and in society, for the centurions saw that it was so.

But everywhere there was something else, too. There was oppression--for those who were not the friends of Tiberius Caesar. There was the tax gatherer to take the grain from the fields and the flax from the spindle to feed the legions or to fill the hungry treasury from which divine Caesar gave largess to the people. There was the impressor to find recruits for the circuses. There were executioners to quiet those whom the Emperor proscribed. What was a man for but to serve Caesar?

There was the persecution of men who dared think differently, who heard strange voices or read strange manuscripts. There was enslavement of men whose tribes came not from Rome, disdain for those who did not have the familiar visage. And most of all, there was everywhere a contempt for human life. What, to the strong, was one man more or less in a crowded world?

Then, of a sudden, there was a light in the world, and a man from Galilee saying, Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's.

And the voice from Galilee, which would defy Caesar, offered a new Kingdom in which each man could walk upright and bow to none but his God. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. And he sent this gospel of the Kingdom of Man into the uttermost ends of the earth.

So the light came into the world and the men who lived in darkness were afraid, and they tried to lower a curtain so that man would still believe salvation lay with the leaders.

But it came to pass for a while in divers places that the truth did set man free, although the men of darkness were offended and they tried to put out the light. The voice said, Haste ye. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you, for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Along the road to Damascus the light shone brightly. But afterward Paul of Tarsus, too, was sore afraid. He feared that other Caesars, other prophets, might one day persuade men that man was nothing save a servant unto them, that men might yield up their birthright from God for pottage and walk no more in freedom.

Then might it come to pass that darkness would settle again over the lands and there would be a burning of books and men would think only of what they should eat and what they should wear, and would give heed only to new Caesars and to false prophets. Then might it come to pass that men would not look upward to see even a winter's star in the East, and once more, there would be no light at all in the darkness.

And so Paul, the apostle of the Son of Man, spoke to his brethren, the Galatians, the words he would have us remember afterward in each of the years of his Lord:

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Rome, Habsburg and the European Union

Editorial In Hoc Anno Domini

Editorial
In Hoc Anno Domini