Προειδοποιούσε ότι τα Ενωμένα Κράτη της Ευρώπης με κυρίαρχο τη Γερμανία μπορούσαν να οδηγήσουν στην ΚΑΤΑΣΤΡΟΦΗ. Γνωστός για την πολιτική στήριξη του προς την «Σιδηρά Κυρία» της Βρετανίας Μάργκαρετ Θάτσερ, ο Nicholas Ridley μίλησε ανοιχτά για τις απόψεις του.
Σύμφωνα, λοιπόν, με τον Nicholas Ridley:
1) Τα σχέδια για την Ευρωπαϊκή Νομισματική Ένωση είναι ΟΛΑ «μια παγίδα της Γερμανίας για να κυριαρχήσει σε όλη την Ευρώπη και πρέπει να εμποδιστούν. Αυτή η ΒΙΑΙΗ εξαγορά απ’ τους ΓΕΡΜΑΝΟΥΣ, στη χειρότερη δυνατή βάση, δείχνει ότι οι ΓΑΛΛΟΙ συμπεριφέρονται σαν τσιράκια των ΓΕΡΜΑΝΩΝ και αυτό είναι εντελώς απαράδεκτο…
2) Η Γερμανία φέρεται αλαζονικά και ήδη έχει το ΜΟΝΟΠΩΛΙΟ της λήψης αποφάσεων για τα περισσότερα θέματα της Ευρωπαϊκής Κοινότητας.
3) Η Επιτροπή της Ευρωπαϊκής Κοινότητας στις Βρυξέλλες στο Βέλγιο αποτελείται από «17 μη εκλεγμένους, απορριφθέντες πολιτικούς, που δεν ΔΙΝΟΥΝ ΛΟΓΑΡΙΑΣΜΟ ΣΕ ΚΑΝΕΝΑΝ»……!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4) «Δεν αντιτίθεμαι στη χαλάρωση της εθνικής κυριαρχίας στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, ΑΛΛΑ ΟΧΙ Σ’ ΑΥΤΟΥΣ. Αν ήταν έτσι, ας μας δώσουν και τον ΑΔΟΛΦΟ ΧΙΤΛΕΡ»…..!!!!!!!!
Όταν οι αντιτιθέμενοι πολιτικοί και οι επιχειρηματίες, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του διοικητή μιας εκ των μεγαλυτέρων τραπεζών της Γερμανίας, της Deutsche Bundesbank, διαμαρτυρήθηκαν ότι τα σχόλια του Nicholas Ridley θα μπορούσαν να οδηγήσουν σε «ΑΙΜΑΤΗΡΗ ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΗ», η πρωθυπουργός Θάτσερ εξαναγκάστηκε να απομακρύνει τον Nicholas Ridley απ’ το Υπουργείο του, παρόλο που η ίδια είχε πολλές αμφιβολίες για την ένταξη της Μεγάλης Βρετανίας στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση……. .
Margaret Thatcher feared reunited Germany would ‘make more ground than Hitler’
By MICHAEL SEAMARKNicholas Ridley had described the EU as ‘a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe’, adding that giving up sovereignty to Brussels was as bad as giving it to Adolf Hitler.
But it emerged yesterday that while his public comments in 1990 cost him his career, similar sentiments were being privately shared by his own prime minister and France’s president Mitterrand.
‘Horror’: German Neo-Nazis march after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Around the same time – amid the euphoria of the fall of the Berlin
Wall – Francois Mitterrand told Mrs Thatcher that a united Germany might
‘make even more ground than Hitler had’.
Over lunch at the Elysee Palace, the French leader talked about how reunification would see the re-emergence of the ‘bad’ Germans who had once dominated Europe.
Mrs Thatcher’s deep opposition to reunification and the true extent of Britain and France’s anxieties over a new Germany are revealed today in secret papers released by the Foreign Office ahead of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Shared concerns: In 1990 French President Francois Mitterrand warned
Margaret Thatcher of the potential threat of a unified Germany
Over lunch at the Elysee Palace, the French leader talked about how reunification would see the re-emergence of the ‘bad’ Germans who had once dominated Europe.
Mrs Thatcher’s deep opposition to reunification and the true extent of Britain and France’s anxieties over a new Germany are revealed today in secret papers released by the Foreign Office ahead of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Controversial: Nicholas Ridley was forced to resign after airing his acerbic view of the GermansWhile the event of 1989 is now regarded as a triumphant landmark in the history of post-war Europe, 20 years ago the imminent emergence of a united Germany raised real fears in London and Paris.
The depth of both leaders’ concerns are documented in memos written by Charles Powell, the then foreign affairs adviser to Mrs Thatcher, detailing discussions between the two leaders. The Berlin Wall came down in November 1989 but Germany was not formally reunited until October 1990.
Just two weeks after the Wall fell, however, West German chancellor Helmut Kohl announced a plan for reunification without consulting his European allies. That blueprint prompted several private meetings between Mrs Thatcher and Mr Mitterrand to discuss the German question.
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night in history: There was joy in Berlin as travel restrictions were
lifted, but further afield Mrs Thatcher and President Mitterrand were
nervousAt the Elysee Palace lunch on January 20, 1990, he also warned that if Mr Kohl got his way, Germany could win more ground than Hitler ever did – and Europe would have to bear the consequences.
He told Mrs Thatcher that if Germany were to expand territorially, Europe would be back to where it had been one year before the First World War.
Another paper shows that Mrs Thatcher was astonished that Sir Christopher Mallaby, the British ambassador to Bonn, appeared to welcome the prospect of a united Germany.
The memos revealing conversations between Mrs Thatcher and President Mitterrand appear in the book Britain And German Unification 1989-90 – The Untold Story.
A
united Berlin: Mrs Thatcher was horrified to hear reports of Bundestag
members singing ‘Deutschland uber alles’ to celebrate the fall of the
Wall
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