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Europhobic
/ ˌjʊərəʊˈfəʊbɪk /
adjective
- hostile to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
Example Sentences
As renowned soccer historian David Goldblatt noted in reference to English soccer crowds in the late 20th century, their "essential xenophobia" revealed a "rabid insular nationalism that was just a few notches more extreme than the foreign policy of the most Europhobic government since the Second World War."
Wherever Boris Johnson’s Europhobic Tories stand on Europe, voters know they are not the party that recognises the need to address today’s multiple societal grievances.
The borderline between passionately holding a set of values and faith may be fuzzy, except looking at, say, Peter Bone or Mark Francois on the Europhobic right or Jon Lansman on the Corbynite left, you can quickly recognise those who have crossed the line.
And excusing you is a media that is a partisan for Europhobic “religion” and long ago ceased holding truth to power.
Looking back, not only to the referendum but to the years before, it’s clear that the greatest weakness of the pro-EU cause has been an inability to find ways of fighting Europhobic faith with passionately argued reason.
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