A COUNTRY CALLED EUROPE
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For 30 years we have been deceived over the EU by politicians who knew that we would never accept their plan to abolish Britain and the other nations of Europe, and replace them with a country called "Europe". Only in Britain is it still denied that this is, and always was, the intention. Judge for yourself:
"First and foremost, however, EMU is a major step on the road to 'ever closer union' in Europe. It represents the opening of a new chapter in the European federalists' agenda, a significant transfer of national sovereignty to a supra-national institution." Mr. Prodi's remarks corroborate what was said in an interview with a German MEP on the BBC.
"Let it not be forgotten that the Treaty of Rome does not contain any clause providing for the withdrawal or expulsion of a Member State. The logic, the assumption underlying the extraordinary achievement that is the European Union is that every State when it becomes a member of the Union accepts its fundamental principles without reservation and forever.
"It is an illusion to think that states can hold onto their autonomy over taxation policies". Hans Tietmeyer, the President of the German Bundesbank
"I agree, if you go so far as to transfer tax and public spending you are moving near a superstate." Kenneth Clarke on Jonothan Dimbleby 1999
"It is now up to us to see that we embark on the next stage leading to political unity, which I think is the consequence of economic unity, so that Europe can in the future also play a political role on the international stage, leading even as far as a common defence policy." Jacques Santer, then-President of the European Commission, The Daily Telegraph, 1/1/99.
"It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political." Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian Finance Minister, The Daily Telegraph, 1/1/99.'
"First and foremost, however, EMU is a major step on the road to 'ever closer union' in Europe. It represents the opening of a new chapter in the European federalists' agenda, a significant transfer of national sovereignty to a supra-national institution." William Buitter Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (see http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/speeches/speech30.pdf (The Bank of England web site -with an excellent collection of speeches)
"From now on, monetary policy, usually an essential part of national sovereignty, will be decided by a truly European institution." Wim Duisenburg, President of the European Central Bank, The Daily Telegraph,
1/1/99.
"Economic and Monetary Union is one of the most far-reaching and momentous steps of the European Union exercise." - Charlie McReevy, Irish Finance Minister, The Daily Telegraph, 1/1/99.
"This (the euro)is a goal without precedent and, above all, it is a political move." Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian Finance Minister, The Daily Telegraph,
1/1/99.
"It will be the first time Europe will have its own currency and the first time we have achieved such a result without arms." - Yves-Thibault de Silguy, EU Monetary Affairs Commissioner, Daily Telegraph, 1/1/99.
"The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. It's a tool to help us master globalisation and help us resist irrational shifts in the market." Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French Finance Minister, The Daily Telegraph, 1/1/99.
"Monetary union is demanding that we Europeans press ahead resolutely with political integration." Senior EU politician, name mislaid
"Our future begins on January 1 1999: The Euro is Europe's key to the
21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over." - Gerhard Schroeder, German Chancellor, The Guardian, 1/1/99.
"When we build the house of Europe the future will belong to Germany" Helmut Kohl, speaking in East Germany, unaware that reporters were present.
"Germany as the biggest and most powerful economic member state will be the leader (of Europe) whether you like it or not." Theo Waigel, former German Finance Minister (1997)
"Never again must there be a destabilising vacuum of power in central Europe. If European integration were not to progress, Germany might be called upon, or tempted by its own security constraints, to try to effect the stabilisation on its own and in the traditional way". CDU Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs, September 1994
"The Parliament and the Commission are allies against the member states. Together we have to prevent the member states from taking back power." New President of the EU Parliament [Radio 4,
20th July 1999]
"After the common market, after the common currency, after Schengen [the EU's open-borders agreement], we have started the long march towards common justice and common security." EU Commission President Romano Prodi, Sunday Telegraph, 17 October
1999.
"There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past." Bill Clinton, New York Times, November 25, 1997
"First and foremost, however, EMU is a major step on the road to 'ever closer union' in Europe. It represents the opening of a new chapter in the European federalists' agenda, a significant transfer of national sovereignty to a supra-national institution." Willem Buiter, member of Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee: From a speech in 1998:
President Rau of Germany "called for the European Union to be transformed into a "European Federal Union", complete with its own constitution. He said that the imminent enlargement of the EU meant that there must be "decision-making procedures which guarantee Europe's capacity for action."
(The Times, Nov 4th 1999) see //www.bankofengland.co.uk/speeches/speech30.pdf
Corpus Juris is "the embryo of a future EU Criminal Code". (Programme for San Sebastian seminar in April 1997, introducing Corpus Juris, which abolishes habeas corpus, trial by jury, freedom from double jeopardy and allows extradition and permanent imprisonment anywhere within the EU, for offences committed, suspected, or where the authorities have reason to suspect might be committed.
"Why does Europe need 15 Foreign Ministers when one is enough? Why do member states still need national armies? One European Army is enough" Hans Eichel, German Finance Minister
1999-11-24
"The time for individual nations (in Europe) having its own tax, employment and social policies if definitely over. We must finally bury the erroneous ideas of nations having sovereignty over foreign and defence policies. National sovereignty will soon prove itself to be a product of the imagination." Gerhard Schroeder, Chancellor of Germany, January 1999.
"I am not embarrassed to suggest that, sometimes, the answer to the concerns of a disillusioned European public is not less Europe but more". Mr. Prodi in Die Welt
22nd July"
On the other hand: "Europe has never existed except as being the totalitarian ambition of dictators like Napoleon, Hitler, Charlemagne and Charles V. It is an area open to the admission of a few madmen with no unity of any kind nolinguistic unity, no cultural unity, no common view of things, no common destiny it is a total mystery" Jaques Attalli, principal adviser to President Mitterand of France,
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