Resistance to EU rising.ITEM: England's Independent newspaper reported on June 8 that "withdrawing from the EU has made the United Kingdom Independence Party a natural vehicle for Euroskeptics and voters wishing to lodge a protest vote...." Citing the UKIP's own publicity claiming that membership in the EU "stifles our initiative and threatens our freedom," the newspaper stated that the rise in anti-EU sentiment "has been remarkable." ITEM: While bemoaning the growing anti-European Union sentiment, England's Guardian newspaper reluctantly reported on June 10 that "according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the latest 1CM poll on the subject, a majority of Britons oppose the new EU constitution, which is due to be finalized later this month. By an even greater margin, 67 percent to 23 percent, they are opposed to Britain joining the European single currency." ITEM: On June 18, Reuters reported: "European leaders formally adopted a historic first constitution for Europe ... giving a new start to the reunited "Reunited" was a #1 hit in the United States in 1979 by the Washington, D.C.-based group Peaches & Herb. Preceded by "Heart of Glass" by Blondie Billboard Hot 100 number one single May 5 1979 Succeeded by "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer continent sit weeks after the bloc's enlargement across the former Iron Curtain Iron Curtain Political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. ." AHEAD OF THE CURVE: THE NEW AMERICAN warned about what was being planned for Europe as far back as our April 10, 1989 issue. The 15-year-old article, entitled "United States of Europe The United States of Europe (sometimes abbreviated U.S.E. or USE) is a name given to several similar speculative scenarios of the unification of Europe, as a single nation and a single federation of states, similar to the United States of America, both as projected by ," noted that the peoples of Europe were being told that membership in the European Community European Community: see European Union. European Community (EC) Organization formed in 1967 with the merger of the European Economic Community, European Coal and Steel Community, and European Atomic Energy Community. (soon to become the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community ) would "help stimulate growth and employment, reduce consumer prices, and raise standards of living throughout Europe." But our article stated instead: "Of course, the much-touted 'free market reforms' are really only bait laid out to entice Europeans into the trap of an (eventually) all-powerful supranational Supranational An international organization, or union, whereby member states transcend national boundaries or interests to share in the decision-making and vote on issues pertaining to the wider grouping. government." Further, it reported: "Citizens of the Common Market are finding their lives and livelihoods increasingly controlled by Eurocrats in Brussels, even as national governments find their sovereign rights sacrificed under such deliberately vague and ambiguous rubrics as 'cooperation,' 'union,' 'integration,' 'convergence,' and 'harmonization.'" |
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