External articles related to the European Union

The following compilation of articles from external sources is presented in the hope that they will be useful but Clarion is not responsible for their content.

The articles are in chronological order, based on stated date of publication, with the most recent at the top of the page.


British Animation, the Marshall Plan and the EU - a television programme review

A review of "Animation Nation", BBC Bristol 1995, Produced and directed by Merryn Threadgould

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An extract from "The Great Deception" on USA, CFR in creation of EU

Christopher Booker, Richard North, "The Great Deception", 2003

This extract is mainly about promotion of the idea of European integration by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) "generously funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and other industrial corporations".

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A letter from Alan Sked about UKIP published in The Daily Telegraph

Alan Sked, Daily Telegraph, 31 January 2001

A letter from Dr Alan Sked, who writes as "founder of the UKIP" (United Kingdom Independence Party), and concludes with: "Michael Ancram is wise to have nothing to do with the current leadership of the UKIP, and I sympathise with all those principled activists in it who will feel tarnished by their leadership's lack of honour."

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Euro-federalists financed by US spy chiefs

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph, 19 September 2000

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DECLASSIFIED American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European federalist movement.
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How MI6 pushed Britain to join Europe

Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Sunday Telegraph, 27 April 1997, page 10

First sentence:

A secretly-funded Foreign Office unit used public money to mount a covert propaganda operation aimed at ensuring Britain joined the European Community.
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