The European Union’s website, states that the formation of the EU originated out of the period immediately after the World War ii, beginning with Winston Churchill’s speech in Zurich University in 1946.

Such a description of how the EU came about fails to say anything about where the roots of the EU lie, as the origins of the EU stem back well before World War ii. Prior to the end of the war, both individuals such as Jean Monnet and the Nazis advocated the cause of European integration. As such it is difficult to determine the true origins of the EU.

Whilst Christopher Booker and Richard North place the origins of the EU with Jean Monnet in their book The Great Deception: Can the European Union survive, other anti-EU writers believe the roots of today’s EU lie with the Nazis.

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