Europe more peaceful due to the EU?
Peace in Europe is due to NATO, not the EU. By encouraging the Ukraine to move towards membership the EU triggered a dangerous Russian reaction, threatening the peace of not only Europe.
It is clear that Mr Studholme (Letters, June 25, ‘Europe more peaceful now’) has not read the Maastricht treaty, which our government signed.
In Clause 9 it resolved to ‘implement a common foreign and security policy including the eventual framing of a common defence policy, which might in time lead to a common defence’.
A common defence means common armed forces. The USSR had a similar policy which promoted peace and security and so prevented any possible breakaway country.
Clause 7 determined to ‘promote economic and social progress for their peoples within the context of the accomplishment of the internal market and of reinforced cohesion....
ensuring that advances in economic integration are accompanied by parallel progress in other fields’. In other words, integration of all aspects of life, including, of course, the armed forces and the legal system.
It is clear from many statements of the leaders that the plan is eventually ever closer union in all matter. This will clearly lead to a common legal system, which we are steadily moving towards.
It has also been stated that ‘When integration is complete no veto’s will be allowed’.
Clause 12 refers to further steps to be taken in order to advance European integration.
As to auditing the accounts, a national newspaper reported that an audit found that £109 billion out of a total of £117 billion spent by the EU in 2013 was “affected by material error”.
It means that the Brussels accounts have not been given the all clear for 19 years running.
To reply to Mr Wilson (Letters, June 25, ‘Stop feeling anti-German’), I am not against the German people but against any multinational dictatorship. One government to lobby will be even easier for wealthy organisations to manipulate.
I am not a member of UKIP but much that they say makes good sense.
Peter Storey
Kendal
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