"Rather than cultivate Utopias, Europeans should learn to live with their Union as something unfinished, provisional," suggest the Swedish authors Richard Swartz and Rolf Gustavsson. "Europe has no soul, no heart, no fixed form. It can't be defined by geography, nor by religion or language - not even by culture. Europe is made up of several minorities, some bigger, some smaller, and Europe can't offer much more than a very refined form of supra-national cooperation. No more and no less. Anything beyond that would be presumptuous and dangerous. Presumptuous because Europe should learn to practice a little modesty after all the self-instigated catastrophes of the 20th century and try to commemorate this misery properly. Dangerous because the notion of a single Europe – a sort of United States of Europe - is based on the idea of a perfect Utopia and such Utopias tend towards totalitarianism."
Summary from sign and sight

Süddeutsche Zeitung 12. 01. 06