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==History==
==History==
The European Union was a [[CIA]] project from its beginning and not an indigenous, democratic European project.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/27/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discov/</ref> Following [[World War II]] and in the early stages of the [[Cold War]], the American Committee on United Europe (ACUE), which was founded one year after the CIA was created, was a private American organization that sought to counter communism in Europe by promoting European [[federalism]]. Its first chairman was former head of America's wartime intelligence agency the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS), [[Bill Donovan]], who had Its vice-chairman was [[Allen Dulles]]. Other board members were [[Walter Bedell Smith]], the CIA's first director. Dullas became CIA director in 1953. ACUE received funding from the Rockefeller and Ford foundations.
The European Union was a [[CIA]] project from its beginning and not an indigenous, European democratic movement.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/27/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discov/</ref> Following [[World War II]] and in the early stages of the [[Cold War]], the American Committee on United Europe (ACUE), which was founded one year after the CIA was created, was a private American organization that sought to counter communism in Europe by promoting European [[federalism]]. Its first chairman was former head of America's wartime intelligence agency the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS), [[Bill Donovan]], who had Its vice-chairman was [[Allen Dulles]]. Other board members were [[Walter Bedell Smith]], the CIA's first director. Dullas became CIA director in 1953. ACUE received funding from the Rockefeller and Ford foundations.
Traditional European rivals sought to solidify peace by bringing their nations together under a common institutional structure. Influenced by his compatriot [[Jean Monnet]], French Foreign Minister [[Robert Schuman]] officially tabled a plan on May 9, 1950 to pool French and German coal and steel production under an organisation that would be open to other European countries. German Chancellor [[Konrad Adenauer]] supported this proposal, and six founding countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands – took an early step toward European integration by establishing the '''European Coal and Steel Community''' (ECSC) in 1951.
Traditional European rivals sought to solidify peace by bringing their nations together under a common institutional structure. Influenced by his compatriot [[Jean Monnet]], French Foreign Minister [[Robert Schuman]] officially tabled a plan on May 9, 1950 to pool French and German coal and steel production under an organisation that would be open to other European countries. German Chancellor [[Konrad Adenauer]] supported this proposal, and six founding countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands – took an early step toward European integration by establishing the '''European Coal and Steel Community''' (ECSC) in 1951.