The Bruges Group spearheaded the intellectual battle to win a vote to leave the European Union and, above all, against the emergence of a centralised EU state.
The Versailles treaty at the end of WW1 was a colossal mistake. It fed into the German "We were not defeated, but betrayed" myth and provided the resentment that led to the rise of Adolf Hitler. There were moments during the early years of NAZI power when they could have been stopped. A combination of extreme Pacifism and a refusal to face facts ca...
