Elites and Patriotism

In most of Europe, however, patriotism is seen as outdated and discreditable. The EU is built on the proposition that national identities are arbitrary, transient, and ultimately dangerous. Indeed, even the passports have been harmonized: the stiff blue British passport has been replaced by a floppy purple EU one. European countries make little effort to inculcate national loyalty in their immigrant communities, because they feel no such loyalties themselves. I am not speaking here of the general population but of the political and intellectual leaders who have systematically derided and traduced the concept of patriotism for the past 40 years. 

- From Why America Must Not Follow Europe by Daniel Hannan