de Gaulle was stuck in a morass of uncontrolled inflation and rising discontent
No one can deny that, when it comes to semiology, the French are unbeatable.
on de Gaulle ordering 29,5000 bars of gold from the NY Federal Reserve soon after calling for a return to the gold standard
to co-opt French farmers, the so-called Common Agricultural Policy was established. Its purpose? To secure the farmers' consent to a European free trade zone by handing over to them a chunk of the cartel's monopoly profits.
French farmers [...] did not like the idea of untrammelled competition from imported milk, cheese, and wine
In 1950 the European Union was officially born in the form of a German-dominated coal and steel cartel, run of course by a cross-border French dominated administration located in Brussels. Its name? The European Coal and Steel Community.
