Norman Tebbit
Telegraph

A long time ago, when I spent a lot of time at the Council of
Ministers in Brussels, my good friend Otto Graf Lambsdorff and I would
wearily raise our heads and mutter “Beware the Greeks when they come
demanding gifts” when confronted by yet another plea for a subsidy from
our Greek colleague. It would be very easy to think that current events
in Greece are just a continuation of that same problem.

That would be to misunderstand the grand strategy being pursued in
Brussels. It is designed to achieve, without recourse to war, the
realization of a dream unfulfilled since the fall of Rome, the first
pan-European Empire. Spain, France and Austro Hungary failed in their
attempts to build such an Empire and after yet another destructive
European war, the founding fathers of the EU swore to achieve through
politics what warfare had failed to deliver.’

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