It is a vision that many European countries share with her

The France is a "power Europe", a Europe that counts and "weighs in the world." It is a vision that many European countries share with her.

"Should we confront this French will, as to make it more consistent and legitimate, that of the Nordic countries that would be"no overall vision of the world"" This is in any case that advance Jean-Dominique Guiliani in "Le Figaro" of June 4. His first target is the Sweden, which today takes the Presidency of the European Union.

"Soft diplomacy nordico-neutraliste", with the Sweden in mind, is the great enemy of the France. Worse, this Northern vision of the world would be a disincentive to development policy, legal and military of Europe.

It is not only little constructive against the countries and regions of Europe, preparing them to each other. But it is mostly ignore that Europe is an adventure in constant evolution and be little aware of the new realities that take form.

Turn on the fact that there is no Northern vision United, between countries with a history and unique to each experience with Europe and it is therefore very difficult to speak of a Northern vision. And I turn on this strange French desire to search for models in our Nordic (nostalgia French of a Swedish model, a Danish flexicurity, etc.), while rejecting the vision that have these countries in the world around them.

Let us not forget that Europe and the world around him are moving and that accession to the European Union is a great learning for each member country. This was the case of the France, and it is now the case of the Sweden. The Sweden will celebrate soon his fifteen years in the European Union, and those who would seek to compare the 1995 Sweden to the Sweden of today would include that its relationship to the European Union is enhanced and expanded. The observation of to say that the France "as completed" with the old debate for or against European integration is valid also in Sweden. Citizens, as politicians, are passed to another relationship to Europe.

Moreover, where was the France after only fifteen years in the European adventure What was his vision of Europe Long road, sometimes painful, it has come is an excellent illustration of the impact on a nation of the European adventure and vice versa. The history of Europe is inseparable from the history of the France. It is obvious that a country, its vision and its ambitions to develop and build with the accession to the European Union. We are witnessing today in France as in Sweden, new trends, new realities, sometimes visible and concrete, such as the rise of a political Europe and environmentalist.

Recent changes in the case of the Sweden occur at several levels: as a country, the Sweden has changed, its leaders have also made a long journey towards a European vision of the policy. Its citizens have integrated Europe in their views of the newspaper to the point of making the Sweden one of the few countries where the rate of participation in the European elections is increasing. It is possible to see a paradigm shift; still recently taboo issues in the debate, such as the common diplomacy or the euro, are now also argued that legitimate.

The Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, to the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) June 9 illustrates this evolution in the Swedish will be an integral part of a Europe strong and proactive in the world. How, otherwise, to interpret his statement that "the Swedish Presidency will be quite different from what people can expect from a country such as the Sweden" And note that the Sweden of today "is a new, more proactive and positive role in the Union European."

Not suggests the identities and visions. Do we not rigidly in prejudice and unnecessary confrontations. Today's realities teach us another thought, show us another way: that of a strong and diverse Europe.