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Cameron, USA, Britain and European Political Union

"As any Confederate could tell you, once you are inside a federal state there is no way out."

(This article was first published 10/1/2013 but is still relevant)

Obama and EU Presidents:
Ally of a new country?
The Obama administration have just intervened in the debate about Britain's membership of the EU.  The US assistant secretary for European affairs warned that "referendums have often turned countries inwards"

"We welcome an outward-looking European Union with Britain in it. We benefit when the EU is unified, speaking with a single voice, and focused on our shared interests around the world and in Europe," Philip Gordon said during a visit to London, adding: "We want to see a strong British voice in that European Union. That is in the American interest."

It is probable that these comments were invited by David Cameron because he will shortly be offering a choice between exit from the EU and his renegotiated terms of membership.  Obviously, to get support for renegotiation rather than exit he needs pro-EU pressure.

The real issue is one of sovereignty and no matter how Cameron negotiates he cannot negotiate the sovereignty issue away.  The EU is rapidly becoming a single nation, a superstate with constituent countries relegated to regions.  The pro-EU lobby seem totally immune to this change and even deny that it is happening; but it is happening.  According to the most senior members of the EU Government the current crisis and change in the EU has only one direction:

José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission  said:

"This is why the Economic and Monetary Union raises the question of a political union and the European democracy that must underpin it."...

.."A deep and genuine economic and monetary union, a political union, with a coherent foreign and defence policy, means ultimately that the present European Union must evolve." (State of the Union 2012 Address to the European Parliament on 12 September 2012).

The EU's Blueprint for a deep and genuine economic and monetary union (and political union) states that:

"This Blueprint for a Deep and Genuine EMU describes the necessary
elements and the steps towards a full banking, economic, fiscal and political union."

Cameron is misleading the people and the USA does not understand that the game has changed, Britain is no longer a member of a club of equal nation states, the emergence of the Eurozone means it is confronted by the rapid appearance of a European Superstate.  When the USA asks Britain to be more deeply involved in the EU they are asking for Britain to disappear as a sovereign nation.  The Eurozone was always the start of European political union, according to the European Central Bank in 1999:

"So what does the future hold? Anyone who believes in the role of a single currency as a pace-setter in achieving political unity (Europe will be created by means of a single currency or not at all (Jacques Rueff 1950)) will regard the decisive step as has having already been taken. This does not provide an answer as to how the "rest" of the journey should be approached. " Europe: common money - political union? September 1999

EU Political Union - what could possibly
go wrong? Image not copyright - use freely
Both the USA and the pro-EU lobby in the UK seem to miss this rapid change from a Europe that is like a club of friendly nations to a superstate.  It is as if the Anglo-american world are in denial, for instance, the BBC routinely uses terms to describe this new state such as "what the anti-europeans call a superstate" when  the European Government intend it to be a superstate and it is obvious that everyone will be calling the new Europe a "superstate".

It is clearly in the interests of the USA to have an ally that is closely linked to Europe but not a part of it rather than to lose an ally entirely as a state like "Rhode Island" in a united Europe.  The USA should be encouraging the UK to remain separate but close to Europe rather than lost to Europe.  As any Confederate could tell you, once you are inside a federal state there is no way out.

More about European political union:

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor said:

"we need a political union first and foremost" (BBC News).

Francois Hollande, the French president said:

"Political union is the step that follows fiscal union, banking union, and social union. It will provide a democratic framework for successful integration." (Le Monde)

Mariano Rajoy Brey, Spanish prime minister:

"We need to fix these objectives - fiscal union, banking union, political union...And we must set a time scale. We are giving a message that we really want greater European integration. We can't say something is this first, then something else, without saying where we're going," Rajoy said at a news conference with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. (Reuters report).

(In 2011 the UK trade deficit with the EU was £46 billion)

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