Europe is a community of nations, dedicated towards one goal.
[laughs moderately]
May we share the joke, Humphrey?
Oh Minister, let's look at this objectively. It is a game played for national interests, and always was. Why do you suppose we went into it?
To strengthen the brotherhood of free Western nations.
Oh really. We went in to screw the French by splitting them off from the Germans.
So why did the French go into it, then?
Well, to protect their inefficient farmers from commercial competition.
That certainly doesn't apply to the Germans.
No, no. They went in to cleanse themselves of genocide and apply for readmission to the human race.
I never heard such appalling cynicism! At least the small nations didn't go into it for selfish reasons.
Oh really? Luxembourg is in it for the perks; the capital of the EEC, all that foreign money pouring in.
Very sensible central location.
With the administration in Brussels and the Parliament in Strasbourg? Minister, it's like having the House of Commons in Swindon and the Civil Service in Kettering!
