Forces driving EU project beyond our experience

RECENTLY I watched a TV documentary on the Battle for Rome (1943/’44).

It dwelt in some detail on the Fosse Ardeatine — which I have visited twice — where 335 Romans, picked almost at random in most cases, were “terminated with extreme prejudice” by drunken, frightened conscripts “acting on orders”.

One would not want to become obsessive about certain matters, but the inability of Anglo-Saxon (and, regrettably, Hibernian) ‘no-noes’ to understand the European project is due — in part — to the fact that they did not share that kind of experience — even in a grandfather’s memories.