However, they are divided into those who just wish a return to the classical Nation state – an understandable, but dangerous idea –, and those wanting to propose an alternative form of European unification, based on more subsidiarity and, most of all, on the historical values of European history, essentially the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian tradition – a combination I have called “Hesperialism”. It is extremely difficult to find a compromise between these different options, which is why, some weeks ago, on the initiative of the Polish “Stowarzyszenie twórców dla rzeczypospolitej” presided by Prof. Krasnodębski (MEP), I have written the “Preamble” for such a future Confederation of European nations (https://visegradpost.com/en/2020/06/24/towards-a-confederation-of-european-nations-find-out-more-about-the-preamble-of-a-future-european-constitution/; shortly to be translated also into Hungarian) as a rallying ground for all those in favour of the European unity as well as of a defence of our traditional Christian identity.
There are still many visible cracks in the EU. There is the north-side divide but there is also the “old” Europe before the Eastward enlargement and the “new” Europe after the Eastward enlargement. One can still experience a lack of understanding or sometimes outright contempt from West or at least from certain ideologies in the West to East. What can the Visegrád 4 countries give to Europe in this time of crises?
The Visegrad states, though still very loosely organised, are for the moment the last large sanctuary of true European identity: Whereas Western Europe is wallowing in self-hate, multiculturalism and collective cultural as well as ethnic suicide, Central and Eastern Europe are still upholding a traditional form of Christian and national identity that has largely disappeared elsewhere. Given the fact that the next years, even decades, will be marked by an ever greater economic decline, it is probable that the West will become the subject of rising civil unrest and ethnic clashes, while the East will stay relatively solid, from an economic as well as from a security point of view. This might be a historical occasion: On the one hand, countries such as Hungary and Poland could become a firm basis from which Western European conservatives could proceed to the cultural reconquest of their homeland and, ultimately, Europe; on the other hand, the East could set up an institutional framework able to counterbalance the nefarious effects of the axis Berlin-Paris. In my view, the current Visegrad alliance is thus just a first step: It should first endeavour to create its own firm institutions as an inner alternative to the rule of Brussels, and then systematically try to involve also the other states situated between the Baltic and the Black Sea in order to become a blueprint for the new Europe that may emerge once the West will understand the error of embracing political correctness, multiculturalism, relativism, transhumanism and ultraliberalism.