Is the EU now the most dangerous world threat to nationhood, cultural identity, freedoms, and order?
Despite the loss of its 2nd-largest member country, the EU’s expansionist march seems relentless
In just 66 years, the EU has expanded beyond recognition. It started quietly as the European Economic Community (EEC) which was founded by six countries in 1957 with the Treaty of Rome.
Sixteen years passed before its first expansion in 1973 when it increased its number of countries by 50%. Since then its acquisitive nature has gathered pace and become more apparent.
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Fact. The EU has acquired 3.5 the land mass it started out with.
By any measure, and despite the EU’s loss of the United Kingdom, the EEC/EU’s expansion over the past 66 years has been continuous and significant.
Which new member countries does the EU have in its sights?
The EU has five candidate countries in the process, and there are two potential candidate countries currently listed by the EU Commission. These are:-
Five official candidate countries are in the process:
- Albania
- Republic of North Macedonia
- Montenegro
- Serbia
- Turkey
Two potential candidate countries on the list:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Kosovo
This is an Empire building on a vast scale because remember France has quite a few territories dotted around the world which come under the jurisdiction of the EU.
Isn’t ‘empire’ a dirty word?
It certainly is these days, but this is what an organisation call the EU has been doing for years. Just think about the outcry there would be if the UK had begun expanding like this.
The UK would have been pulled from pillar to post and told how wrong it is to Empire build. The SAME childish Rejoiners would be out in the streets demanding that the UK give back control to all the countrys. Yet they are seemingly OK with the EU doing it
It is official EU policy to absorb the Balkan countries and Turkey, as the next phase of the EU’s expansion. In my view, it doesn’t matter whether a country such as Turkey is likely to join in the next few years or not. The fact is that this is EU policy and Turkish government policy. In any case, it seems highly likely that some of the Balkan countries will start joining around 2025.
The EU’s acquisition of 280 million people and 21 economies
Despite the loss of the United Kingdom, the EU’s expansionist march continues relentlessly
Sixteen years passed before the EEC/EU’s first expansion in 1973. Below I show how this has slowly but inexorably absorbed hundreds of millions of people, and how its collective economy has grown as a result of its expansionism.
How many people has the EEC/EU absorbed over the years?
The population has increased by 280m people, from 167m to 447m (2.7 times higher)
[Source: EU Commission.]
The largest EU country’s population is 160 times greater than the smallest EU member country
The EU’s acquisition of the people of Europe has involved countries large and small. The disparities are simply enormous. The population of Germany (the largest) is 160 times that of the population of Malta (the smallest).
Below I show the five most populous and the five least populous.
The 5 largest EU countries by population
- Germany: 83.24 m
- France: 67.87 m
- Italy: 59.03 m
- Spain: 47.43 m
- Poland: 37.65 m
The 5 smallest EU countries by population
- Latvia: 1.88 m
- Estonia: 1.33 m
- Cyprus: 0.90 m
- Luxembourg: 0.65 m
- Malta: 0.52 m
[Source: EU Commission, data for 2022.]
Does anyone remember the GDR — East Germany?
When the Soviet Union collapsed, many countries were able to resume their independence — until they got swallowed up by the EU. This was not the case with East Germany, which had been partitioned following the Second World War. This country was subsumed into West Germany and its people became EU citizens. It might be argued that I should have included East Germany in THE total of 21 countries that have been absorbed.
How much of EEC/EU citizens’ wealth has been absorbed over the years?
As a result of expanding its empire, the EU’s GBP is now approximately five times higher
ECC 1960 3.1 Trillian
EU 2022 15.2 Trillian
[Source: World Bank. Note No data is available for 1957 and German data doesn’t start until 1970 so I did a regression to 1960.]
By any measure, and despite the EU’s loss of the United Kingdom, the EEC/EU’s expansion over the past 66 years has been continuous and significant.
The absorption of hundreds of millions of people into one empire
Today I have focused on the peoples of the continent. They have been slowly and inexorably absorbed under the supranational control of the EU and its headquarters in Brussels. There, unelected officials sit in their offices deciding which laws, directives, rules and regulations they will draft for rubber-stamping by the Council.
If any other bloc in the world had expanded and taken over so many countries and their populations, I KNOW there would have been an outcry. Instead, the world has sat back and watched it happen, even today as I write Rejoiners in the UK like the European Movement UK with its members are actively working to take us back into this vast growing empire.
Brexit, however, was perhaps a wake-up call. There are now far more people around the world who have realised that the EU is not a trading bloc, but an empire in the making.
When it comes to the economies of the continent, most have lost their national currencies and are now subject to the whims of the ‘European’ (EU) Central Bank, run by the Frenchwoman Christine Lagarde. The sheer size of the combined economies is immense and as the Eurozone’s problems continue to mount as its debts have exploded, there must be some concern at the scale of the collapse, if it were to happen.
The Rejoiners like the European Mobvment UK have some serious questions to answer. If they were to get their way, the UK would be forced to abandon the pound and adopt the euro. And the people would have no choice but to accept the EU’s laws and regulations, past, present, and future, with no way of voting out those responsible.
Thank goodness we never signed up to the euro — and thank goodness for Brexit.
Two countries have sought hegemony over Europe in the last three hundred years: France, under Louis XIV and Napoleon, and Germany under the Kaiser and Hitler.
One country held the balance of power on each occasion Britain. It was Britain who has, time and again, cobbled together alliances to defeat this imperialism.
Both France and Germany recognise that they cannot rule all of Europe on their own, so it has become, through the EU, a joint enterprise. But both realise for their plan to succeed they must isolate and destroy Britain. That is what is happening with the help of Rejoiners like the European Movement UK
Sources: EU Commission | World Bank | OECD
