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Great Deception

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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.

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