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From here:http://leaveeu.site44.com/

Jean Monnet (1888 – 1979) often described as the founder of the EU. He came from a wealthy family, and was never elected to any public office; founder in 1955 of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe

"Europe's nations should be guided towards a super state without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation."

Jacques Delors (born 1925) - President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office (between January 1985 and January 1995).

"We're not here to make a single market – that doesn't interest me – but to make a political union." (1993).

Jose Manuel Barosso (born 1956) - President of the European Commission, serving from 2004 to 2014

"Sometimes I like to compare the EU as a creation to the organisation of empire. We have the dimension of empire" (2007)

Jean-Claude Juncker (born 1954) - President of the European Commission, serving from 2014

On the 2005 French referendum on the Lisbon Treaty “If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue' ”.

“When it becomes serious, you have to lie”. (2013)

“There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties”. (2015)

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Originally Posted by Big Brian

Actually, in all seriousness, it's primary aim was a single market not a political union.

I disagree. It's always been about power. Trade was (and is) used to sneak it into power.