The great deception : can the European Union survive? / Christopher Booker and Richard North.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Booker, Christopher.

Contributor:

North, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

Europe--Politics and government--1945-.

Europe.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xii, 643 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2005.

Summary:

Now extensively revised to include the collapse of the EU constitution in 2005, this gripping historical tour de force reveals for the first time the full inside story of the most extraordinary political project of our age: the plan dating back to the 1920s to unite Europe under a single 'supranational' government.

Meticulously documented, The Great Deception reveals how Britain's politicians, not least Tony Blair, have been consistently outplayed in a game, the rules of which they have never understood, and includes a chilling account of Blair's 'secret' selling-out to the EU of Britain's armed forces. It ends by asking whether, with the fiasco of the constitution, the 'project' has now finally overreached itself.

Contents:

1 The Birth of an Idea: 1918-1932 5

2 The Nazi Cul-de-Sac: 1933-1945 22

3 Two Tries That Failed: 1945-1949 40

4 'An Almost Mystical Conception': 1950-1951 60

5 The Rocky Road to Rome: 1950-1957 73

6 'A Triumph For Monnet': 1958-1961 107

7 Why de Gaulle Kept Britain Out: 1961-1969 128

8 The Real Deceit of Edward Heath: 1970-1972 167

9 Britain Stays In: 1973-1975 196

10 'The Awkward Partner': 1975-1984 216

11 Enter Mr Spinelli: 1979-1986 241

12 In a Minority of One: 1986-1988 276

13 'No! No! No!': 1988-1990 298

14 'At the Heart of Europe': 1990-1993 320

15 A Revolution in Government 355

16 Odd Man Out: 1993-1997 374

17 Towards 'Political Unity': 1997-1999 415

18 Which Europe?: 1999-2001 443

19 The Crowning Dream: 2002-2003 483

20 End Game: 2003-2004 512

21 Collision With Reality?: 2004-2005 540

Epilogue - Deception or Self-Deception? 582.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 617-622) and index.

ISBN:

0826480144

OCLC:

61302491