As the European Union moves towards adopting the constitution which will mark its final emergence as a 'United States of Europe', The Great Deception shows how the most ambitious political project of our time has, for more than 50 years, been based on a colossal confidence trick - the systematic concealment from the peoples of Europe of what the aim of this project has always been since its inception in the late 1940s. As it reveals for the first time the true story behind the long-term plan to build a politically-united Europe, the authors show how all previous attempts to reconstruct the history of this project - whether written by Europhiles or Eurosceptics - have got it wrong, at almost every step along the way. With all the suspense of a detective story, drawing on thousands of books, papers and official documents, many of which have only become publicly available in the past few years, the book traces how a handful of determined visionaries set out more than half a century ago to weld the countries of Europe into a single political state. The Great Deception should immediately become a standard reference work for all students of politics. Yet, so disturbing is the picture that emerges that, at a time when Britain's future in the EU is a subject of national debate, it will also spark much wider concern.
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"'Two brave and diligent men, Christopher Booker and Richard North, have written a superb history of the EU and of Britain's relationship with it... Every MP, every senior civil servant, every journalist with any claim to understanding the current state of the country, should read it.... Besiege booksellers. Ask any politician or commentator who pronounces on this subject if they have read it. If they haven't, they don't know what they're talking about.' Peter Hitchens, The Mail on Sunday"
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Christopher Booker is a weekly columnist for the Sunday Telegraph. The author of The Mad Officials and The Neophiliacs, he founded Private Eye with Paul Foot and others. Richard North is an Economist and a Consultant to the Government on European issues.
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Finally, a comprehensive history of the modern European Union,
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Booker and North have done yeoman work in exploring scores of original sources related to the modern European Union. Most impressively, they have returned to the 1920s, when the contemporary notion of "European Union" began. They note that an element of deception has been present since the very earliest years of the project, demonstrating that the idea's early exponents believed that their utopian ideals, whilst admirable, ought to be realized without the knowledge or participation of the member countries' peoples. In fact, Booker and North reveal that a strong tendency of the strain of Unionists which created the present Brussels regime has been to shun democracy by creating a supranational authority with no meaningful accountability to the people, whilst simultaneously subverting individual states' national sovereignty. A thoroughly absorbing and fascinating read, one essential for anyone interested in contemporary European politics. The defeat in France and the Netherlands of the EU constitution has not rendered this book irrelevant; indeed, it provides a warning about the accumulated power of a body still very much in being and still very zealous to reach the consummation of its endeavors.
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Good information on the EU Superstate,
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Communist and fascist all seem to like the idea of a single Europe entity. In fact they dreamed of it.
'Not just a piece of convenient machinery. It is a revolutionary and almost mystical conception." Harold Macmillian on Monnets Schuman's plan (The Schuman Declaration is a governmental proposal by then-French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman to create a new form of organization of States in Europe called a supranational Community. It created the world's first supranational institution ) Very Interesting critical history of the EU super state. "Unite Europe into a single "supranational government under a political constitution was planned 60 years before." Europeans tricked into giving up their sovereignty. The United states of Europe was also an idea Hitler had. Churchill referred to "frightful nationalist quarrels." (Get rid of the nation state) Outside the grip of the Nazis and the allure of the interwar dream of Europe united did not die-Altiero Spinelli was an Italian political theorist and a European Federalist. Spinelli is referred to as one of the "Founding Fathers of the European Union" Spinelli joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI) at a young age. all refers to The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence
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