Europe and the freedom

 

 

   The freedom of speech and the  recognition of inherent human dignity are of a paramount importance in Europe. It is considered that it is a first principle that when we fight for our freedom, we also fight for the recognition of the inherent human dignity of all the others. When “Solidarity”( „Solidarność”) was being founded in 1980 it stated that there was no freedom without solidarity. Freedom cannot exist without being accompanied by personal responsibility. The „Solidarity” trade union represented a trade-unionism against comunism.    

 

   Article 54 of the European Convention on Human Rights guarantees the basic rights of religion and amalgamation. This is already an imperative right norm in the Treaty of Lisbon.

 

   The President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek points out that the sense of freedom should never be lost no matter what obstacles and circumstances appear. It is highly necessary to take care of  Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus. The fight for freedom and human rights is closely related to the most significant institution – the Parliament both on national and European level because it is directly elected. The close cooperation between the national and the European Parliament is of a paramount importance and that is exactly Jerzy Buzek from Brussels’ message.

 

   The European Union represents a super global political, economic, social and cultural geography which is immanently bound together with each and every single country all over the globe. The Treaty of Lisbon proclaims for the first time the possibility of a member state to leave the EU but whether remaining outside of the range and sphere of influence of the EU it will still be able to function and face the challenges which history will present is a highly debated question.

 

   The human mankind still has not found the exact freedom formula because it still has not discovered the truth which sets human beings free. “Freedom, equality, brotherhood”(“ Liberté, égalité, fraternité”) was the national motto of the French Revolution.

 

  Europe managed to give us its powerful finance and spiritual support today as it didn’t manage to do it at the end of the fourteenth century when Bulgaria was utterly destroyed by the Ottoman Empire. Europe does not have even the slightest, the remotest idea what it means for Bulgaria to lose seven centuries of historical evolution of social relations and to be confined by the manacles of  the ruthless Ottoman rule, to be ground down by poverty and live in profound ignorance during a whole epoch. Europe has a great culture and science. Europe was establishing universities while here in Bulgaria dark was omnipresent and desecration of everything holy and meaningful to us was just a standard procedure.

 

     “Freedom or Death” was the script on the flag of Filip Totio’s resistance group from 1876.  “Free let’s call ourselves”  were the last words which came out of the mouths of the Gabrovo rebels while they were dying in the massacre of the April rebellion. Wasn’t  the national Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi(1807-1882) speaking of freedom? Our freedom. Foreign freedom. Someone’s freedom is being hurt somewhere all the time. “The Spanish Nation, wishing to establish justice, liberty and security, and to promote the welfare of all who make part of it, in use of her sovereignty, proclaims its will to:

Guarantee democratic life within the Constitution and the laws according to a just economic and social order.

Consolidate a State ensuring the rule of law as an expression of the will of the people.

Protect all Spaniards and all the peoples of Spain in the exercise of human rights, their cultures and traditions, languages and institutions.

Promote the progress of culture and the economy to ensure a dignified quality of life for all

Establish an advanced democratic society, and

Collaborate in the strengthening of peaceful and efficient cooperation among all the peoples of the Earth.” we read in the preamble of the Spanish Constitution  from 29-th December 1978. Magna Harta Libertatum from 15-th June 1215 was saying: “ We have granted to God, and by this our present charter confirmed for us and our heirs forever that the English Church shall be free, and shall have her rights entire, and her liberties inviolate; and we will that it be thus observed; which is apparent from this that the freedom of elections, which is reckoned most important and very essential to the English Church, we, of our pure and unconstrained will... We have also granted to all freeman of our kingdom, for us and our heirs forever, all the underwritten liberties, to be had and held by them and their heirs, of us and our heirs forever.” 

 

   The concept of freedom  runs like a scarlet connecting thread through the history of our civilization and so shall it be forever and ever.

 

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