By Stephen Challis
Born in the UK. Served in RAF for 5 years and as a Police Officer for a further 21 yrs. Emigrated to US in 200.8 Author of several books on gun control plus historic fiction. Certified CCW trainer State of Kentucky. Joint owner of Harmony Hollow Firearms Training in Jeffersonville, Ky. NRA endowment member and certified instructor, multiple disciplines.
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The original idea of the EU was first floated in 1943, in Nazi occupied Europe by German Minister Von Rippontrop, in a proposal titled a European Confederation. This proposal, though never formally adopted, had at its core, themes of a common destiny of European peoples, aimed to ensure that war never breaks out between them, and of a trading partnership based on the principle of European preference. The proposal was of course never acted upon as Germany lost the war, but the idea of a European trading bloc never died.
Twelve years after the end of the war, the idea was reborn as the 1957 treaty of Rome which established the European Economic Community. Its aims were similar to that of Von Rippontrop’s original draft, but with the Third Reich, still a very painful memory all parallels were strongly denied.
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