25 April 1962: British fears about the loss of sovereignty gradual down its EEC entry
The setback which the Six suffered final week in their attempt to build a European Political Union could,in the long hasten, be all to the proper. But it is unlucky that it arose over the question of Britain’s participation in the discussions of the Six about the form their political union should take.
That this was so was not entirely Britain’s fault. But it may well appear to have been so in Paris, and where the negative attitude of successive British Governments to questions of European unity has created a deep-rooted and almost automatic suspicion of British statements and actions in respect to such questions.
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Source: theguardian.com