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". – If one were to judge by the Commission’s report, it would be possible to believe that cross-border transport and the free movement of goods in Europe could not exist without the EU.
Needless to say, governments are capable of freely cooperating on transport matters – and a broad range of other issues – without needing to surrender their powers to an unelected, supranational authority.
But what makes this project particularly odious is the triumphalist claim in the Commission’s report:
“The major cross-border projects of the last decade, such as the Channel Tunnel, the high-speed line between Brussels and Paris and the bridge/tunnel between Sweden and Denmark, send out signals to the citizens of the European Union that European integration is progressing”.
In other words, like everything else the Commission touches – or, more accurately, “taints” – the real
agenda is political integration. This is not only odious – it is dangerous. When are the Commission and its fellow travellers going to realise that their continued efforts to hijack virtually every activity in Europe is creating the sort of backlash typified by Le Pen and Fortuyn? A lot less integration and a little more humility would do us all a lot of good."@en1
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