70 yrs is a fantastic number...I wonder if NATO played any role in the peace during any of those years...
Anyway, some factual perspective:
"BBC ON THIS DAY | 1 | 1973: Britain joins the EEC
Membership applications by the UK to join the EEC were refused in 1963 and 1967.
The European Economic Community was officially established by the Treaty of Rome in 1957.
It then consisted of six member states - Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, West Germany and the Netherlands.
The European Union, as it is now known, now consists of 25 member states and presidency of the organisation changes annually.
Britain, Ireland and Denmark joined in 1973, Greece joined in 1981, Spain and Portugal in 1986, Austria, Finland and Sweden in 1995."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/2459167.stm