The claim was not about Europe, nor about the EU: it was about Europeans, namely that they wouldn't be so 'irresponsible' as to run a towerless airfield.
The citizens of St. Barts are French. Are you claiming they aren't European? Tell me, do they become European when they visit the Metropole? Does this quality vanish when they return to the Caribbean? I'd love an explanation!
I’m a European and if you’d ask me without any context I’d not think of the geographical term which includes chunks of Russia. I’d initially take it as a synonym for the EU and associated states. So YMMV.
Yes but European is not, please don't be obtuse. You don't stop being European when you leave Europe, and you don't magically become a European the moment you get off an airplane onto the subcontinent.
This entire thread is a response to a claim about Europeans, and I took pains to draw out that distinction. Yet here you are talking about Europe. Why?
Ethnically and culturally the residents of St Barth are definitely Europeans. French people who moved to another part of France.
People born there? French kids of French parents.
If St Barth had different demographics, there might be a more meaningful debate to be had about this. It’s not exactly the melting pot you might expect from an old colony.
The citizens of St. Barts are French. Are you claiming they aren't European? Tell me, do they become European when they visit the Metropole? Does this quality vanish when they return to the Caribbean? I'd love an explanation!