Liens tolkienneux divers

[Hyarion]

Un parlementaire européen cite Tolkien dans son discours. C'était le 8 octobre dernier

Il s'agit de Daniel Hannan, un député conservateur britannique, actuellement membre du Groupe des Conservateurs et Réformistes Européens au sein du Parlement européen siégeant (encore pour le moment) à Strasbourg.

“[...] I wrote an article a couple of months ago in which I made a jocular and throw-away remark to the effect that every continent in the world is now growing economically, except Antarctica and Europe. And then I received an email from a Spanish friend with a list of statistics that showed that actually Antarctica is doing fine: the cruise ships are returning and the Antarctican economy is recovering in line with the rest of the world. So we alone, in this part of the world, are trapped in a customs union that is dwindling. And why is it dwindling? I think deep down we all know: excessive taxation, excessive regulation, excessive government – we are doing all the things that are undoing the nature of our rise and our success over the past centuries.

We have it in our gift to change and to integrate our economies with the rest of the world, to drop this dream of fortress Europe and protectionism and trying to preserve a separate model. And if we do not take that opportunity, we are the authors of our own fate, and like Tolkien’s Eldar we will diminish and go into the West.”

Bon sang, mais c'est bien sûr : ces pauvres Eldar... s'ils en sont arrivés à tous s'embarquer pour Valinor, c'est parce qu'ils n'étaient pas assez libéraux !

Cordialement,

Hyarion.