I am a Greek citizen who has lived in the UK since 1985. On Brexit day I want to say: I have no fondness for the EU – it destroyed my country. I'm not going to paint my face blue and gold. But I loathe much more the little England nationalism that mobilizes the Brexit narrative.
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That the hostile environment started in my country a long time ago: it ensured that immigrants had to evidence their legitimacy 24/7 and bring wads of papers to government offices every month while witnessing their existence cancelled
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That the EU has enabled at least one third of Greek territory to be open to fracking because anything goes in the South so that it can also go – later – in the North
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Another Europe is indeed possible, but it is not the Europe of Varoufakis and his ilk
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It is a Europe of the refugees, of the people on 0 hrs contracts, the dispossessed, the homeless, the un-citizens. Of the children & the grandchildren of the dead & the exterminated, of those who live the hostile environment in their bones, of those who will haunt your dreams.
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of the people drowned in the beautiful beaches of the Mediterranean where Greek children play and where northerners take their holidays
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This is the Europe of the present, the Europe to come, the Europe we must find a place to live with
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Kraj razgovora
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Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
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