Eurovision is more than a song contest. The term also captures the aspirations of a coterie of politicians determined to complete the transformation of common market principles into their grand vision: the United States of Europe.

Promoting harmony on a continent with a war-torn history is laudable, but it does not demand an irreversible commitment to full political union, necessitating the merger of a collection of independent nations without regard for unique differences in culture, natural resources, language, institutions, economic history and innate enterprise.