Churchill set out a blueprint for the EU in a speech after the Second World War

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In the first of a five-part series on Britain’s ambiguous attitude to continental Europe, Sean O'Grady reveals how such a stance predated even the EEC, and has led to it playing a game of catch-up thereafter

. Although various notions of a more politically united Europe had been floated over the years , these had mostly been idealistic and academic; few practising politicians, and none of the stature of Churchill, had put forward such a vision.

 

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