French going to teach us to be Europeans

Those habitual anti-progressives and occasional rioters, the French, have announced a proposal to create European Lessons in secondary schools across the 25-state union. In a sardonic nod to the democratic process, several of the ideas are ‘are recycled from the constitution’s ruins.’ Remind me, who was it that first rejected the French authored constitution?

The lessons, which British officials have dismissed as a “non-starter,” would the French argue, be an “apprenticeship” for young Europeans. Not happy with dislocating the European people from democratic accountability, our intellectual betters now suggest that we’re socially engineered into good, compliant, little federalists.

Did someone once say the Soviet Union had fallen?

Regular readers will know that I am a passionate European, and a regular traveller across our glorious continent, but our continent is glorious because of the very differences that our political elite seeks to destroy in their homogenising socialist quest.

The EU should be a union of free trade, free-movement, and peaceful co-operation, nothing more, and nothing less.

We don’t need lessons for that.