Re: Blue passports? They say we could have had them all along...
Originally Posted by
Julie1962
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Odd that as soon as break up of eu is mooted they cry it's only thing stopped France and Germany fighting then. They can't have it both ways.
As for high skilled etc fine great but we still need a cord who will clean cook and empty the bins etc. And we need to pay them enough to live in this high skill society.
Extracts of JFK's speech on European Unity in 1963 :
"The future of the West lies in Atlantic partnership--a system of cooperation, interdependence and harmony whose people can jointly meet their burdens and opportunities throughout the world. Some say this is only a dream, but I do not agree. A generation of achievement--the Marshall Plan, NATO, the Schuman Plan, and the Common Market--urges us up the path to greater unity.
There will be difficulties and delays, and doubts and discouragement. There will be differences of approach and opinion. But we have the will and the means to serve three related goals--the heritage of our countries, the unity of our continents, and the interdependence of the Western alliance."....
"Trade expansion will help us all.
The experience of the Common Market--like the experience of the German Zollverein--shows an increased rise in business activity and general prosperity resulting for all participants in such trade agreements, with no member profiting at the expense of another. As they say on my own Cape Cod, "A rising tide lifts all boats." And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversity--let us also be partners in prosperity.
Beyond development and trade is monetary policy. Here again our interest run together. Indeed there is no field in which the wider interests of all more clearly outweigh the narrow interests of one. We have lived by that principle, as bankers to freedom, for a generation. Now that other nations--including West Germany--have found new economic strength, it is time for common efforts here, too. The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.
And third and finally, our partnership depends on common political purpose. Against the hazards of division and lassitude, no lesser force will serve. History tells us that disunity and relaxation are the great internal dangers of an alliance. Thucydides reported that the Peloponnesians and their allies were mighty in battle but handicapped by their policy-making body--in which, he related, "each presses its own end... which generally results in no action at all... they devote more time to the prosecution of their own purposes than to consideration of the general welfare--each supposes that no harm will come of his own neglect, that it is the business of another to do this and that--and so, as each separately entertains the same illusion, the common cause imperceptibly decays."
Is this also to be the story of the grand alliance? Welded in a moment of imminent danger, will it disintegrate into complacency with each member pressing its own ends to the neglect of the common cause? This must not be the case.
Our old dangers are not gone beyond return, and any division among us would bring them back in doubled strength."
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9303