> Americans since the 1960s have wanted the Brits inside the EU to counterbalance the French, whom they do not trust. Actually, the EU dates to 1993. That's wh

> Americans since the 1960s have wanted the Brits inside the EU to counterbalance the French, whom they do not trust. Actually, the EU dates to 1993. That's when Maastricht extended a European citizenship. It's predecessor was the Treaty of Rome, essentially a weak confederation; it dates from 1957. And this idea that we don't trust the French would come from a Brit. Anyways, it's Ferguson. Whatever.