The Great Deception The True Story of Britain and the European Union

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Bewertung aus Regensburg am 21.01.2021
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‘The Great Deception’ is a most fascinating book which tells the full history of what is now the European Union, which insiders call the European ‘project’. By delving much further into European history than the ‘official’ version, the reader can understand how the European Union came to be have its ‘supranational’ structure, how it was always meant to be this way, and how it uses various ‘instruments’, including the European Court of Justice, to give EU law a higher priority than that of member states, and ensures that it stays that way. The book also covers the support that Churchill wanted to give Europe with the aim of achieving peace, freedom and an ‘end to all follies of the past’. However he was very much against the supranational structure; he strongly favoured an intergovernmental approach. He envisaged a ‘Temple of World Peace’ with four ‘pillars’: the USA, the Soviet Union, a ‘United States of Europe’ and, quite separately, the British Empire and Commonwealth. How the original Churchillian vision of an intergovernmental ‘United States of Europe’ with Britain a separate entity, became the supranational European Union with Britain as a member, is described in meticulous detail in ‘The Great Deception’. With references throughout, this well-researched book describes, among other things, the real reasons why de Gaulle kept Britain out of the European Economic Community (as it was then) in the 1960s, but by the early 1970s the French needed the UK to be in the EEC. Also, one cannot fully understand the downfall of Margaret Thatcher without knowing the 'Europe'-dimension. To anyone interested in having detailed knowledge of much of the political history of Europe, including various attempts further back in history at ‘unifying’ Europe, and how things finally developed to become the European Union, the writing of the Constitution and its rejection by the French and the Dutch, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.