In 1945, just after the Second World War, Winston Churchill described Europe as a rubble heap, a charnel house, a breeding ground for pestilence and hate. A year later, on 19 September 1946, in his famous Zurich speech, he proposed as a remedy to recreate the European Family ... and to provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom ... a kind of United States of Europe. Half a century later, realising and exceeding Churchills vision, the western part of the European Family had become an island of peace and prosperity in a world ravaged by hatreds, conflicts, civil wars and misery. Fifty years after the invitation to union of Robert Schuman we may say with confidence that the expectations of the fathers of European unification have been largely fulfilled. The European Community/Union (EC/EU) has built the three first floors of its edifice - the customs union, the common market and economic and monetary union - and although work is still needed and done daily on them, it has started building the last floor, that of political union. Bring it on! europedia.moussis.eu/books/Book_2/2/1/index.tkl?term=&s=1&e=10&pos=NaN&all=1
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:30:08 +0000
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