Meanings of national egoism in English

The charge of "brutal national egoism" is laid at England's door.

The spirit of strife and division possesses them; they are dominated by the uncontrolled instinct of national egoism and greed.

Shuttling between separate meetings with the visitors, Mr Rotfeld urged EU leaders not to let national egoism supplant the values that created Europe.

Critical voices in Washington were annoyed by the threat posed to their global interests by the narrow national egoism of the Pakistan army.

We may justifiably ask, then, What basis is there for the charge that England's "brutal, national egoism" provoked the world war?

If it had been possible anywhere outside of our naked, mercantile and national egoism to discover a German idea, it would have been respected.

Speaking at NUI Galway yesterday, Mr Gauck also said the "politics of national egoism" must not be allowed to define the challenges facing the EU.