THE EURO-SCEPTICAL DIRECTORY: Being a selected annotated bibliography of the best critical writings on the European project together with a directory of useful addresses and internet resources and a chronology of relevant events By Dr. Chris R. Tame First Published 2002 Reissued by The Hampden Press, London, 2016 © Chris R. Tame, Sean Gabb (Editor), 2016 Many thanks for buying this book. If you like it, please leave a review on Amazon. You may also consider looking at other books from the team that brought this one to you: Chris Tame Sean Gabb Richard Blake CONTENTS I: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................... 3 THE PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THIS DIRECTORY .............................................................................................. 3 THE MEANING OF EURO-SCEPTICISM .............................................................................................................. 5 NATIONALISM, GOOD AND BAD ........................................................................................................................ 6 THE EUROPEAN IDEAL ...................................................................................................................................... 7 NOTES ................................................................................................................................................................. 8 II: A DIRECTORY OF THE PRINCIPAL EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS, PRO-EU AND EURO- SCEPTIC ORGANISATIONS, PUBLICATIONS AND INTERNET RESOURCES AND OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION SOURCES .............................................................................................. 12 I: PRO-EU ORGANIZATIONS ............................................................................................................................ 12 II: EURO-SCEPTIC ORGANIZATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS .............................................................................. 28 III: THE PRINCIPAL EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS IN BRITAIN ................................................................ 55 IV: THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE PRINCIPAL EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS .......................................... 59 V: OTHER SOURCES OF RELEVANT INFORMATION ................................................................................. 61 VI: PRO-EU INTERNET RESOURCES ................................................................................................................ 77 III: A SELECTED ANNOTATED EURO-SCEPTICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ...................................................................... 80 IV: A CHRONOLOGY OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY/EUROPEAN UNION AND RELEVANT EUROPEAN EVENTS, 1920-2002 ......................................................................................198 I: INTRODUCTION The proponents of the European Union (EU) are fond of portraying their opponents as mere xenophobes, unpleasant nationalists verging on Naziism, old buffers, blimps, ignoramuses, or, in one recent example by Matthew Parris, “people with funny ears”! No doubt “Euro-scepticism”, like any stream of political thought and opinion contains its fair share of oddballs or rogues. But what has struck me, as a relatively recent adherent to its cause, has been the cogency of its intellectual case. Whilst the supporters of what it is now clear was always meant to be the creation of a European superstate have largely relied on ridicule, assertions of historical inevitability, well-funded but superficial propaganda, political scheming and behind-doors pressure and threats, the Euro-sceptics have been slowly building up a body of critical literature on the European project that is grounded in the facts, sound economics, a genuinely realist political analysis, and an appreciation of Britain’s essentially liberal common law traditions and constitution. The Purpose and Scope of This Directory This publication is an attempt to compile a selected annotated bibliography of the best critical writings on the European project together with a directory of useful addresses and internet resources and a chronology of relevant events. Such a compendium has long been needed as the literature of Euro-scepticism has been scattered amongst a wide range of groups, publishers and journals, and was frequently poorly publicised or distributed. It also includes items of fugitive journalism that slip easily from the public consciousness. I have generally omitted works which now seem predominantly outdated by events, or which were urging liberal re-forms and measures within the existing framework of transnational Europe (except, in this latter case, where they still contain substantially useful critical data). Since a number of sources are relatively small, overseas or possibly hard to locate, I have wherever possible provided their full addresses. Some items are included which, whilst not actually Euro- sceptic in orientation or even dealing with Europe at all, contain useful data or an analytical perspective which is valuable in some way. In the case of collections of essays I have made an entry for the work itself as well as separate entries for the most important contributions. The inclusion of material in this bibliography should not be taken as necessarily implying the endorsement, by either myself or the Bruges Group, of every analysis or view contained therein. Neither are we necessarily endorsing all the groups included in the directory. It should also not be assumed that the viewpoints, analyses, or groups listed herein are all in agreement with each other. I have included details of pro-EU groups, periodicals and internet resources in the directory since Euro-scepticism has full confidence in the validity of its analyses and no fear over exposing its readers, and the public as a whole, to the pro-European argument. It is perhaps significant that the reverse does not appear to be the case. By providing such a comprehensive guide to the major exponents of both sides of the European argument we are sure that Euro- scepticism can only be furthered. We also hope that, together with its Chronology, it will also render this publication useful to anyone interested in or studying the European issue, whatever At one point I had also considered including a selected bibliography of the best works in favour of the European Union. However, the body of literature is so huge and so intellectually shoddy that I simply could not submit myself to the ordeal of trying to sift something out of it. There are acres of turgid volumes detailing the history and bureaucratic architecture of the EU. Most lack any serious conceptual framework or scholarly rigour. When they do attempt a more serious economic or political science perspective, it is generally based on the most myopic or question-begging analysis. The temper of the more elementary works is supercilious, dogmatic, intellectually superficial and generally fatuous. Why such a voluminous body of work has been so assiduously subsidised and produced is clearly a topic begging for the application of interest group and class analysis, the “sociology of knowledge”, and the psycho-logy of social movements. The corruption of academic scholarship by what is nothing less than political bribery by the EU is another scandalous aspect of the European project. This is not a definitive bibliography. It is quite comprehensive and does cover most of the major lines of argument. However, I have not completed a full literature search in the relevant libraries nor trawled through all the major scholarly journals. Should anyone be willing to finance me in the few weeks work that this would entail I would be happy to do so for a second edition of this bibliography! (I can be contacted either through the Bruges Group or via the Libertarian Alliance address contained in Part II below, or at my email address: [email protected].) I also welcome suggestions for inclusion in future editions. Those wishing to arrive at a fully comprehensive critique of the European project would also do well to avail themselves of the broader literature of “public choice” (the economic analysis of politics), with its realistic analysis of the dynamics of political, bureaucrat and interest group politics. Public choice economists have also done much work on the dynamics of federal political structures, the economics of federalism, and “constitutional economics”. The general literature on the economics of trade is obviously of relevance, as are the specialised fields of the economics of customs unions and optimal currency areas. And, of course, general monetary economics (and especially the burgeoning area of the economics of currency competition and “free banking”) is also indispensable to arriving at a rational perspective. The long tradition of classical liberal and libertarian class analysis (eg Smith and Millar, through its French, German and Italian contributions to such modern American exponents as Murray Rothbard) is also of great utility in understanding the nature of state formation, special interest seeking, neo-mercantilism and corporatism – i.e., all the processes at work in the drive to the European super-state. Need I say that those looking for exposures of the EU as a sign of forthcoming apocalyptic “end times”, as the work of the devil (1), “Jewish bankers”, Freemasons, or the “Illuminati” and the like, and analyses based on the alleged virtues of “debt free” currency and other funny-money inflationary nostrums,