He was quite right to try to block our entry to the Common Market:
"England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her exchanges, her markets, her supply lines to the most diverse and often the most distant countries; she pursues essentially industrial and commercial activities, and only slight agricultural ones. She has in all her doings very marked and very original habits and traditions."
"[T]he question…[is] whether Great Britain can now place herself like the Continent and with it inside a tariff which is genuinely common, to renounce all Commonwealth preferences, to cease any pretence that her agriculture be privileged, and, more than that, to treat her engagements with other countries of the free trade area as null and void — that question is the whole question."
I don't like the EU at all. But I love Europe. And I find that a thinking French person is usually right about most things.
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/27/newsid_4187000/4187714.stm
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Charles de Gaulle was right. The French are often right.
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Millyonthefloss · 14/06/2016 10:34
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