Lovely piece: Jean Monnet and all the rest are just following in the footsteps of Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Charles V, the Hapsburgs, Napoleon and Hitler. Doomed to failure:
Europe has never tolerated being led. It is a continent of cats, not dogs. Diversity is its glory, cantankerousness its defence. It is not a family or a community but a marketplace, a cultural entrepôt. Those who have sought its unity, even as a political metaphor, have come to grief.
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1 Mark Wadsworth // Feb 22, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Even EU-philes have taken to describing teh EU as an Empire, and we all know what happens to them.
2 Bob B // Feb 22, 2008 at 3:22 pm
How come Blair’s fixation with joined-up government then?
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