One thing we seem to lose lately, is the actual meaning of the words we are using to delimiter a meaning or a term. What does sceptic or scepticism means? The most common answer is that a sceptic is the person who questions or doubts something. Furthermore, is an overall approach that requires all information to be well supported by evidence.

Here, I’m not going to travel you back to the 5th century B.C. and talk about sceptics and sophists; this is more appropriate for a philosophical conversation or a symposium; but I will remain to the fact that sceptic is the one who questions, doubts and requires information to be well supported.

Contemporary European Union gives me every evidence to doubt its connection or continuality with the foundations of the Union. It has actually failed even in its secondary agenda. And by that I mean its aim to unite Europe into avoid another continental war and control German ambitions for another continental domination. It has failed to prioritize the wellbeing of its citizens to the profits of private interests and it has failed in gigantic proportions to be the champion of human rights as it was from 1970s to the mid of 1980s. The failure of the Union to play any role during the Lebanese crisis a few years ago, when it was the only “power” with access to become a credible mediator, is the best proof.

The euro-crisis, the lack of empathy and solidarity between the partners and actually the fact that some partners made financial profits from the others misery, is highly worrisome. The same time while the bankers and industrialists are protected in the name of competition and market growth, elements like health coverage, minimum salary, 40 hours’ work week, sick leave, protected retirement seem to have become relics of the past. The Europe of its citizens has become a relic form the past.

The power of the banks in EU has become so tremendously high that they can strangle a member state just to make sure that they can satisfy their loathsome exploitations, their games with the interests and set an example for others that might dream a rebellion. They prefer to see a country increase its number of the already unacceptable unemployed and the number of suicides than decrease their demands in usurious interests. And this in full support of the dominant Merkelism dogma that rules Europe at the moment.

In Hungary and Poland freedom of press is something with very local understanding. You either agree with whatever the government does or says or you going to prison. For Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Belarus the world is divided in two; the ones who hate Putin and they want to invade and turn Russia into ruins and the others, doesn’t matter what the others have to say. For Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Slovakia the absolutely corrupted juridical system is social accepted and nothing changes it. Finland in an economic balloon ready to explode any minute and Italy, France, Belgium Spain with Portugal live on borrowed time. Germany and the German dogmas dominate Europe for one more time and this time the new Reich uses a currency instead of tanks to dominate, rule and divide.

This is the Europe I don’t want to be part of. This is not about Greece, Finland or UK; this is about me. I don’t want to be part of this Europe and I don’t care how this will influence the London stock market tomorrow or the French exchange market next week.

But for that now I have to face a new situation that serves the bankers, the EU bureaucracy and establishment and of course the radicals. Even though I am the one who doubts and requires a well-supported by evidence opposition that could persuade me that I’m wrong and what I see is the continuity of the EU fundamentals, I cannot be a sceptic. Because the word sceptic is used the last decade and more, to semantically veil all the ones who oppose the existence of the Union due to their nationalistic, chauvinistic, fascist, Nazi, racist, isolator, xenophobic and other similar ideologies.

I’m not any of the above and actually what makes me sceptic is the fact that I support the idea of a United Europe for a variety of reasons including cultural, social and common evolution but I doubt its practices today. Sadly pressed between an establishment that moves away from the European fundamentals and the so called euro-sceptics, I have lost my voice. And I’m not alone.

Most of the people like me are gradually isolated, not finding a voice between the two monsters, often blamed for the failure or the success of the one or the other. If I don’t support a hideous establishment it means that I support a murderous opposition and if I support a murderous opposition that opposes every single principal of mine, it means that I fight an establishment that thinks that it keeps Europe united while violates every single principal of mine.

The truth is that they both use its other to survive, the sad news is that Europe is gradually slides in the arms of the euro-skeptic fascists. And don’t fool yourself, Marianne Le Pen, Nigel Farage, Václav Klaus (the Czech President), Timo Soini, Niko Michaloliakos, the Hungarian Victor Orban have absolutely nothing to do with the euro-skeptism for example Margaret thatcher often shown. These people are fascist, Nazis in the core, xenophobes and racists.

Timo Soini and his anti-constitutional by definition True Finns, are the third party in the Finnish parliament and they hope that in the coming elections they will strengthen their position. To what end? Nikos Michaloliakos and the Nazi Golden Dawn is the third party in Greece despite the fact that its leadership is in prison accused for murders and series of hate crimes. Marianne Le Pen is getting ready for the presidential palace in France and Farage will probably be the one who will determine what will happen in UK in the next two months. Václav Klaus is president and Victor Orban government.

The establishment continues to use the euro-sceptics calling any opposition euro-sceptics and straight away pile them in the same category with Le Pen and Farage. They did it with the new Greek government which doesn’t oppose a united Europe but doubts the policies of the establishment, they do it with the rising Podemos in Spain. They think that by flattening all the opposition they will make any healthy opposition unattractive to the voters. As a consequence they give more power to the fascists like Timo Soini and Michaloliakos.

In the meantime the only ones who could really defend a united Europe, the only ones who could really defend a pan-European democracy and our cultural heritage, we are isolated, powerless and without a voice.

But the right for equality, the right for freedom in speech, the right for democracy is not just European, is global. And if I cannot be a euro-sceptic due to the semantics that have been built on the world for opportunistic reasons, what am I? If I think that the world that surround me this moment, starting from Europe is not the world I like, what does this make me? Just a sceptic?