Jean-Paul Sartre

The Europe presented to us by Messrs. Carter Schmidt, Giscard, and Andreotti has no relation to proletarian internationalism; it is foreign to the Europe of the workers that, for a century, has been the ideal of the Western labor movement.

I find this enthusiasm for the European elections and the economic union ridiculous. In the end, it will all come down to hegemony of Germany, and for a bit of France, with the southern countries eternally oppressed and the English, conquered by their own arrogance, ready to carve out a market for themselves.

(Jean Paul Sartre, 1977).