A New World Order?
“Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation” (Jean Monnet communication, 30 April 1952).
“It is impossible to solve problems between European States who preserve full sovereignty. We are convinced that our times must see the creation of vast units like the United States and the USSR, and to establish a [world-wide] organisation to ensure co-operation between all those vast units. It is this organization which will create the new world order.” (Jean Monnet, communiqué of 22 August 1962).
“There are some in this country who fear that in going into Europe, we shall in some way sacrifice independence and sovereignty. These fears, I need hardly say, are completely unjustifiedâ€. Edward Heath on taking Britain into the then Common Market in 1972
Nice quotes - but I suspect you would be the first to complain were I to suggest that all Eurosceptics through the same as Robert Kilroy-Silk. Monnet and Heath are not representative of all pro-Europeans…
It is also worth noting that the drive to Federalism, though certianly initially an aim of some of the originators of the project, has long since been abandoned by all but the most fervent pro-Europeans, except as a very, very vague future ideal - much like the concept of the Federation in Star Trek… A federal European super state simply doesn’t make any sense. In 200, maybe 300 years perhaps, but for not the forseeable future - certainly for our lifetimes, not a hope in hell.
There is no federalist conspiracy. It’s simply too silly an idea under the present realities: no political elites in any of the countries of the EU would be willing to give up their power - as would inevitably have to happen for a Federal Europe to kick off - even if the people were willing to let them.
http://eurealist.blogspot.com/2005/01/quotes.html