The Road to nowhere an EU of Nation States
The Conservative party are echoing the views of many when they say they want to work to create a different direction for the EU. They say they would like an EU of Nation States, an EU that respects the existing national boundaries and has fewer areas of competence, and an EU that actually adds value, by doing what the states have asked of it better, rather than just claiming it does.
It should however be noted that this has been the professed goal for a very long time, I believe Mr Heath also professed the desire to be in the Project so as best to affect its direction. We have been blessed with being at the top table, at the heart of Europe, on the train, on the bus and making sure that we are not left behind, in order to protect our national interests, ever since Britain first joined.
Yet if we stand back and actually look at the EU of today we will see an entirely different, more encompassing and much more integrated union, than the Common Market we joined in 1971.
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