Since my early youth I have been an enthusiast for the European Union. My mother was born in Brussels to a French mother and an English father, and I have many relatives in Belgium and France. In my teens I won essay prizes on the wonders of the EU, visited the European Parliament and generally thought supranationalism was one in the eye to the foul Thomas Cromwell. Later I devoted years of my life to researching the life and thought of Robert Schuman, the saintly founder of the European project whose Declaration of 9th May 1950 is annually commemorated as Europe Day.
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I've loved the EU all my life - but I'm delighted we are leaving it
Leave voters believe in democracy and the rule of law. European history shows they are right to reject the EU
Alan Fimister
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