A Believer Reveals the True Grand Plan
By Christopher Booker

Mark Leonard, the foreign policy director of the Centre for European Reform, one of our leading pro-EU think-tanks, deserves a prize for honesty. In a paper in the CER's current bulletin (available on the internet), describing how much more admirable the EU is in every way than the USA, he writes:

"Europe's power is easy to miss. Like an 'invisible hand' it operates through the shell of traditional political structures. The British House of Commons, British law courts and British civil servants are still here, but they have become agents of the European Union implementing European law. This is no accident. By creating common standards that are implemented through national institutions, Europe can take over countries without necessarily becoming a target for hostility."

I am grateful to see a keen fan of the EU making the point so much more candidly than I would dare to do myself. Eurosceptics are hoping our rather less frank Europe minister Denis MacShane will have the courage to sign up Mr Leonard as a front-man in the forthcoming debate on the EU's constitution.
The Sunday Telegraph, 6th February 2005

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