* "David Blane" david@pigstick.freeserve.co.uk | From a Scottish point of view, I must disassociate myself and the | majority of my compatriots from this sentiment. A hugely popular | view is that we're Scottish and European, and only then British. (I | get the impression that this, like most "prevailing climates" | perceived as British, actually represents a sample of some part of | London or its suburbs.)
I have absolutely no opinion on what the logo for the new FSF Europe organisation should be, but I will recommend the lecture "We are not against Europe. We are against Norwegian membership in the European Union" by Professor Emeritus Kristen Nygaard.
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~kristen/POLITIKKDOK_MAPPE/P_EU_Munchen_eng.html
Nygaard was the leader of the Norwegian People's Movement "Nei til EU" (No to EU) in 1994 and one of the two original designers of the Simula language [*] in the 1960s.
| However, the criteria for joining the superstate are very well defined, | politically and economically, and the FSFE should not appear to | endorse those conditions to the detriment of alternatives perhaps | favoured by non-EU European nations.
Well put.
-- Ole
[*] GNU Cim was written and maintained by Sverre Hvammen Johansen, who is also very outspoken against the European Union.