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Hooray! Fantastic for us fans of late-70s Who, Lalla Ward, Louise Jameson and John Leeson together again. Though I recommend starting with the first Gallifrey series and working through to this new release.
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It’s precisely because it’s at the beginning of a treaty that I think of it as a flourish rather than a legal obligation. If anything, it’s surely a pious and laudable hope that “the peoples of Europe” (not, note, just the six initial members on whose behalf the signatories might be thought competent to speak) will become ever more closely tied in bonds of amity, goodwill, understanding, etc. Of course, I agree with that, in the same spirit that I’m in favour of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I don’t think of it as referring to currency union, etc., nor do I think many nations would have signed up on the understanding that their ultimate goal was a single state – which must surely be the terminus of “ever closer union”, understood as you would wish me to do.
As for your question – I really don’t know how the British would feel in those circumstance, because I don’t believe that anyone’s ever bothered to ask them, but it would certainly make a difference to me.