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A correction: it was Juliette Binoche as "Julie" in Blue, not Red. (I guess it's been a while!)

At that link you'll find the words to the music composed for the EU. I think you'll find it in stark contrast to what has happened since 1984, but not totally.

1 Corinthians, 13:1-13:
Song for the Unification of Europe - Zbigniew Preisner
CHORUS:

''Though I speak with the tongues of angels,

If I have not love...

My words would resound with but a tinkling of a cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy...

And understand all mysteries...

and all knowledge...

And though I have all faith

So that I could remove mountains,

if I have not love...

I am nothing.

Love is patient, full of goodness;

Love tolerates all things,

Aspires to all things,

Love never dies,

while the prophecies shall be done away,

tongues shall be silenced,

knowledge shall fade...

thus then shall linger only

faith, hope, and love...

but greatest of these...

is love. ''