Vichy forgets
This man is Bernard Kouchner, French Foreign Minister. he joined in the threats being made by
Germany and other European powers against Vaclac Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, who was refusing to
sign the Lisbon Treaty.
Kouchner sneered at the attempts by Klaus to protect his country's sovereignty:
'A single man will not know how to oppose the will of 500 million Europeans.'
Kouchner should not be so sure. This man knew how.
“We are with Europe but not of it.
We are linked but not compromised.
We are associated but not absorbed.
If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea,
she must always choose the open sea.” —
Winston Churchill, House of Commons on May 11, 1953.
