Now 50 Years Old, European Union Deceitful From Its Inception

In their important history of the EU, The Great Deception, British authors Christopher Booker and Richard North, concluded that the 27 member nations now entangled in the union have ceded their sovereignty in a carefully planned stealth operation. They grudgingly credit Monnet with accomplishing "a slow-motion coup d’etat: the most spectacular coup d’etat in history."

The authors of The Great Deception summarized the effect of the Treaty of Rome: "Thus did the central deception of the whole story become established. From now on, the real agenda, political integration, was to be deliberately concealed under the guise of economic integration. Building Europe was to be presented as a matter of trade and jobs."

Some Europeans are now realizing that their countries are no longer independent. The EU's 2004 Constitution, now discarded because of rejection by French and Dutch voters, actually stated, "This Constitution ... shall have primacy over the law of Member States." Though now abandoned as a formal document, that Constitution revealingly spelled out steps that are not being abandoned, and the people in the 27 formerly sovereign nations are becoming aware of the monstrous trap into which their leaders have taken them.