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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
No one knew that the Berlin Wall would fall but certainly it was explicit that the EEC was more than a trading block. Some people neglected to read the details or listen to the politicians and then moaned many years afterwards. And still are; it's habitual. First world countries are less about manufactured goods and more about services and that brings complexity.
But the UK would never get more deeply involved in the EU than it did. We said "non" to the Euro and "nein" to a single army. So not a single drop of evidence to support the UK having any deeper integration than we have at present.
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Back then, there was no internet, no vast access to information, no rolling 24 hr news. It was called the EEC and more popularly known as 'The Common Market'
E E C
European
Economic
community.
Nothing was terribly explicit at all in those days, do you think they changed the name to the EU for no reason?
It was to reflect the 'more than' a trading bloc
Were you even there back then?