French Guinean but naturalized German, Elisa Diallo grew up in France, lived in the Netherlands and now in Germany. Despite the Brexit and the extremist pushes, it does not envisage a future that is not European.
TESTIMONIAL EUROPE 1
More than a million people rallied in London on Saturday to demand a new vote on Brexit and say their commitment to Europe. At the same time, two months before the European elections, Europe is facing a rise in nationalism.
In this context, the journey of Elisa Diallo, who publishes Daughter of France , is an illustration of all the issues and questions of Europe. French Guinean father, she lived eleven in the Netherlands and settled for ten years in Germany, where she obtained nationality. For Europe 1, she testifies what Europe is, according to her.
"A malaise with the French nationality". If she chose to obtain German nationality in addition to her French nationality, it was because she wanted to be able to vote in the country where she works, raise her children and pay her taxes. The presidential elections in France, his fear of seeing Marine Le Pen win and the possibility of a 'Frexit' were also a detonator. "I realized that I was uncomfortable with French nationality for a long time," she admits, while claiming her attachment to France. "That's where I was born, where I grew up, it's my culture, it's my country."
"The importance of Europe for Germany". However, asking for German nationality asked her about her own complex identity. But ironically, when she obtains German citizenship and participates in the German parliamentary elections for the first time, 90 right-wing deputies are elected. "In France, it terrifies me: in Germany, the democratic bloc is so solid" that it is positive about the results. But also "because of the importance that Europe has for Germany," she says.
"Europe, the only future I want". His optimism does not prevent him from thinking that the borders - which were to fade - are being rebuilt. On a business trip to England, she also found that non-British Europeans, who lived in England, had some to ask for British nationality for security reasons. However, she says: "Europe is the only future that I want.Since Germany, there is such confidence in the European future because by the force of things, she was forced to deconstruct its national myth (...) The Germans had to build another National History based more on today and the future than on the past. "
If it finds Europe necessary, it does not imagine it in danger, as Emmanuel Macron wrote in his tribune to the European citizens: "I am confident in Europe, our children are coming. 'future without Europe.'