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Why the European Union – Is the future of Europe bright or dark?
by Francis S.E. Codjoe
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 17th September, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-907179-24-2
Price: €35
This book reveals the crucial advice a Founding Father of the European Project offered to Europeans relating to the survival of the European Enterprise.
About the Author
Francis S.E. Codjoe was born in Ghana. He was educated by Irish Priests at St Augustine’s College in Cape Coast. He worked for Her Majesty Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in London.
Francis is not a politician or a political activist. He is neither a businessman nor a pastor. Through unusual circumstances he found himself researching the significance of European integration. He shares with you his 9-year labour.
About the Book
The “Unknown Truth” About European integration Politicians, political commentators and academics in America, Britain, Europe and Ireland have described the European Union a “unique phenomenon”, an “extraordinary project”, “the Great experiment”, the “most potent political project of the postwar world” and the “Quiet miracle” that evolved from the rubble of the Second World War.
Jean Monnet, the brain behind the European project, has been described as a “genius”, a “man of vision”, a “prophet”, a ‘revolutionary’, the “spiritual god-father” of Europe, and the “practical apostle of European unity.” President Kennedy awarded Monnet the Freedom Medal for uniting Europe. And in 1975, Dr Henry Kissinger presented the Grenville Clark Prize to Monnet. He praised the French: “There are few men or women of whom one can say that their life gave a new turning point to the time in which they lived… I believe that we can say, without risk of error, that no man in the world has marked and modified the political life of our time more than the one whom we are honouring today….
At the end of the War, Mister Monnet had a dream that from the destruction and ruins a united Europe might emerge….What was in 1946 only an absurd idea is today a tangible reality…..” The question is: Was the emergence of a united Europe from “destruction and ruins” Monnet’s dream becoming a reality, or it was an Irishman’s prediction in the 19th century that was fulfilled in the 20th century? The author shares with the world the three truths about the European phenomenon: the “Unknown truth”, the “Forgotten truth” and the “Distorted truth”. An Irish wrote about European integration – how it would develop, its character and destiny before Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman were born. According to this man, a confederation of European nations would develop through a great European crisis. And this European confederacy would be the next major political feature in history after the restoration of the Jews to Palestine. He made this prediction even before Theodor Hertzl, the Founding Father of Zionism, formed the Zionist Movement in 1896. The “Seer of Dublin” recorded: “Not only would no hostile influence hinder their (the Jews) return, but the probabilities of the case….are in favour of the colonisation of Palestine….the Jews would migrate thither in thousands from every land….Judah’s national independent is not to be regained by diplomacy or the sword.”
This book reveals the crucial advice a Founding Father of the European Project offered to Europeans relating to the survival of the European Enterprise. The author explains the significance of the European symbol which has been distorted. He encourages American politicians to examine the works of the Barrister from Trinity College before the “Washington Trinity” defines America’s relationship with the European Union. The writer also urges President Obama to correct a significant “mistake” President George Bush made at the White House.
This work deals briefly with the Evolution and Creationism controversy. The world knows of the debate between Professor Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. The writer reveals the results of another two “Tournaments” on the controversy. One was between Professor Huxley and a British Prime Minister. The other was the Champion of Darwinism’s “fight” with the Knight Commander. You will meet the 21st century “clone” of Darwin’s “bulldog” and the “obstinate juror.”
The writer explains how the Middle East crisis would be “resolved” to bring “peace” between the Jews and their Arab neighbours. Finally, he appeals to Pope Benedict XVI to declare to Roman Catholics whether the Book of Daniel is an “edifying fiction” as suggested in the Catholic Bible((The New Jerusalem Bible), or this Old Testament Book is a divine revelation that edifies the Lord Jesus Christ as the Messiah who was crucified.
Jean Monnet: “I have no doubt, for my part, that a confederation will one day lead to a federation. But for the moment, is it possible to go further? I cannot say that it is. Meanwhile, the confederation would have the very great advantage of assuring public opinion in our countries that they have joined an entity which is not only economic but political, and that they are therefore part of something bigger than any of their countries alone.”
( Monnet Memoirs 1978)
Question: “Was Jean Monnet aware that before he was born in 1888, an Irishman had already written about a confederation of European nations: how it would develop, its character and future prospects?
The Anglicanised-Irishman of Scotch Extraction: “Through the gradual unfolding…or far more probably as the outcome of some great European crisis in the future, this confederation of [European] nations shall be developed ….This European confederacy would be the next major political feature in history after the restoration of the Jews to Palestine.”
