The New European Constitution: the Last Battle for Britain?

No nation has successfully invaded Britain since the Norman Conquest in 1066. In effect, the European Union may be about to do what the Spanish Armada, Napoleon and Hitler attempted but failed. Many do not realize that the identity and sovereignty of the grand old British nation may be in serious jeopardy. What is the true biblical perspective? Our U.K. correspondent reports.

by John Ross Schroeder

Back in 1940, courageous young British pilots went into the air on a daily basis to meet the might of the German Luftwaffe. After several months of intense engagement, they emerged victorious in what has since been called the Battle of Britain. As a result, Hitler had to call off the planned Nazi invasion of England.

Today Britain faces a different kind of battle, but one that potentially portends just as much danger to its national identity and sovereignty.

A wake-up call

It is high time for the British nation to wake up to its divine destiny. Its enemy is not the European Union so much as its own ignorance and complacency in the face of what is being planned on the other side of the English Channel. On the whole, both British and U.S. citizens have shown very little interest in Brussels. The affairs of the European Union seem remote and legalistic, not to mention vaguely dull and uninteresting.

Says Simon Heffer, a Daily Mail feature columnist: "Europe as a political issue has always bored the public. This has allowed politicians to get away with murder over the years in sacrificing aspects of our sovereignty to unelected foreigners."

So bit by bit, perhaps almost imperceptibly at times, Britain’s national sovereignty has been gradually eroded by clever decision making in Brussels. One prominent member of the Conservative Party referred to it as "serial surrendering." In the 1980s, a former Brussels bureaucrat, Frenchman Jacques deLors, said that by 1995 or so 90 percent of all important decisions relevant to the British nation would be made in Brussels.

He may have been a little off in his timing, but the essence of his prediction is about to become a reality, perhaps in the next year or two. A brand-new European constitution is now being prepared by Valery Giscard d’Estaing, former French president. He chairs the convention that is responsible for producing the draft text. By June 20 a full text will have been published and then submitted to a summit discussion conference in Thessaloniki, Greece.

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