From its etymology, "Europhile", which could just define the sentiment of belonging to a community of people, is mostly used to infer connotations of unconditional or irrational 'love' of integration, that would indicate dogmatic support for integrationist policy irrespective of the potential negative consequences.
As such, some consider the term innaccurate when applied to EU support that's based on a cost-benefit view that weighs practical benefits versus loss of national sovereignty. Due to this, the term pro-European is most often u ...
A major argument of Europhiles is the relative small size and importance of the individual European countries with respect to the current and rising powers on the world scale. Historically countries such as France, the United Kingdom or Spain, and more recently Germany and Italy, once major powers (see Pax Brittanica), have now been overtaken by the United States and may be made even less relevant with the increased ...
