The European debate and record-breaking temperatures in the sweltering Estonian summer. The governing coalition completes its forgivable first hundred days without any glories or memorable moments; a symbolic budget for the promotional campaign is approved: one million euros. The summer heat and the euphoria of the holidays will be the catalysts that ensure the still-undecided voters form an opinion before September 14, the day of the Referendum. A capital P, because it is undoubtedly one of the most important decisions in Estonia's history: to be or not to be part of the EU. If membership in Europe was already decided by the German and Danish crusaders seven centuries ago, defining a shared cultural space and values, is it now a matter of confronting globalization and being pragmatic? Or is it about halting a chain reaction, much to the disappointment of the Brussels bureaucracy?
The first article of Estonia's Constitution states that the country's sovereignty is inalienable, and under this symbol, all organizations opposed to surrendering their hard-won independence to a federalist Babel have united. Sweating Euro-activists are building villas and castles with structural funds, but they avoid addressing the issue of rising prices. Financial analysts predict that outside the EU, bank interest rates, unemployment, taxes, and an economic crisis worse than that of 1998 will increase, giving a boost to the "yes" campaign. Two birds with one cross: marking "yes" means approving both the definitive accession to Europe and the constitutional amendment.
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