Brexit - Le Grand Non 1967 |
Jun 24, 2016 at 09:55 PM |
Charles de Gaulle was right already in 1967:
"Compared with the motives that led the Six to organize their unit, we understand for
what reasons, why Britain-who is not continental, who remains, because of the Commonwealth
and because she is an island, committed far beyond the seas, who is tied to the United
States by all kinds of special agreements-did not merge into a Community with set
dimensions and strict rules. While this Community was taking shape, Britain therefore
first refused to participate in It and even took toward it a hostile attitude as if she
saw in It an economic and political threat. Then she tried to negotiate in order to join
the Community, but in such conditions that the latter would have been suffocated by this
membership. The attempt having failed, the British Government then asserted that it no
longer wanted to enter the Community and set about strengthening its ties with the
Commonwealth and with other European countries grouped around it in a free-trade area.
Yet, apparently now adopting a new state of mind, Britain declares she is ready to
subscribe to the Rome Treaty, even though she is asking exceptional and prolonged delays
and, as regards her, that basic changes be made in the Treaty's implementation. At the
same time, she acknowledges that in order to arrive there, it will be necessary to
surmount obstacles that the great perceptiveness and profound experience of her Prime
Minister have qualified as formidable."
Out 2016.
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