The EU's acquisition of 280 million people and 21 economies

UK's Great Escape - Part Two of the EU’s inexorable takeover of a continent

Montage Facts4EU.Org 2023

Despite the loss of the United Kingdom, the EU’s expansionist march continues relentlessly

A Brexit Facts4EU.Org Series

Part One – The EU’s acquisition of countries and land
Part Two - The EU's growth in people and GDP (This report)
Part Three – 1957-1992, UK's entry into the EEC, the scandal of what we now know from officialdom
Part Four - 1993-2023, the Great UK Escape - EU's power grabs after Maastricht, and UK's triumphant Brexit

In Part One we outlined how the EU empire has gradually taken over a massive area of the European land mass and has grown from six countries in the EEC in 1957 to 27 in the EU in 2023. Today we look at people and the economy.

Sixteen years passed before the EEC/EU's first expansion in 1973. Below we show how this has slowly but inexorably absorbed hundreds of millions of people, and how its collective economy has grown as a result of its expansionism.

In this four-part series we ask: Is the EU now the most dangerous world threat to individual nationhood, cultural identity, personal freedoms, and the established global order?

Part Two – People and GDP

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

How many people has the EEC/EU absorbed over the years?

The population has increased by 280m people, from 167m to 447m (2.7 times higher)

[Source: EU Commission.]

The largest EU country's population is 160 times greater than the smallest EU member country

The EU's acquisition of the peoples of Europe has involved countries large and small. The disparities are simply enormous. The population of Germany (the largest) is 160 times that of the population of Malta (the smallest).

Below we show the five most populous and the five least populous.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

The 5 largest EU countries by population

Germany : 83.24 m
France : 67.87 m
Italy : 59.03 m
Spain : 47.43 m
Poland : 37.65 m

The 5 smallest EU countries by population

Latvia : 1.88 m
Estonia : 1.33 m
Cyprus : 0.90 m
Luxembourg : 0.65 m
Malta : 0.52 m

[Source: EU Commission, data for 2022.]

Does anyone remember the GDR - East Germany?

When the Soviet Union collapsed, many countries were able to resume their independence - until they got swallowed up by the EU. This was not the case with East Germany, which had been partitioned following the Second World War. This country was subsumed into West Germany and its people became EU citizens. It might be argued that we should have included East Germany in our total of 21 countries that have been absorbed.

How much of EEC/EU citizens' wealth has been absorbed over the years?

As a result of expanding its empire, the EU's GBP is now approximately five times higher

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

The growth in the EEC/EU's GDP

[Source: World Bank. Note: No data is available for 1957 and German data doesn't start until 1970 so we did a regression to 1960.]

By any measure, and despite the EU’s loss of the United Kingdom, the EEC/EU’s expansion over the past 66 years has been continuous and significant.

Observations

The absorption of hundreds of millions of people into one empire

In this four-part series of Facts4EU.Org reports we are looking at the EU as an empire. Given the increasing centralisation of power in Brussels and the large increase in areas of life controlled by the EU Commission, this seems perfectly appropriate.

In today's report we have focused on the peoples of the continent. They have been slowly and inexorably absorbed under the supranational control of the EU and its headquarters in Brussels. There, unelected officials sit in their offices deciding which laws, directives, rules and regulations they will draft for rubber-stamping by the Council.

If any other bloc in the world had expanded and taken over so many countries and their populations we feel sure there would have been an outcry. Instead the world has sat back and watched it happen.

Brexit, however, was perhaps a wake-up call. There are now far more people around the world who have realised that the EU is not a trading bloc, but an empire in the making.

When it comes to the economies of the continent, most have lost their national currencies and are now subject to the whims of the 'European' (EU) Central Bank, run by the Frenchwoman Christine Lagarde. The sheer size of the combined economies is immense and as the Eurozone's problems continue to mount as its debts have exploded, there must be some concern at the scale of the collapse, if it were to happen.

The Rejoiners have some serious questions to answer. If they were to get their way, the UK would be forced to abandon the pound and adopt the euro. And the people would have no choice but to accept the EU's laws and regulations, past, present, and future, with no way of voting out those responsible.

Thanks goodness we never signed up to the euro - and thank goodness for Brexit.

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Reader Comments 7

1. LuxuryBalloon , Monday, August 21, 2023, 06:36:

It is ridiculous that the EU empire invades and occupies all these countries.

2. John Hardman , Monday, August 21, 2023, 06:46:

Germany always wanted an Empire
They got it
How blind our politicians are

3. Ashley Great Britain , Monday, August 21, 2023, 07:16:

2 John hardman.
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I'd say lots of our politicians were complicit it the making of it.

4. Red and blue , Monday, August 21, 2023, 07:17:

LB - Hotel California?

5. LuxuryBalloon , Monday, August 21, 2023, 07:37:

4 Red and Blue: great post!

6. Andy , Monday, August 21, 2023, 08:12:

Two countries have sought hegemony over Europe in the last three hundred years: France, under Louis XIV and Napoleon, and Germany under the Kaiser and Hitler.
One country held the balance of power on each occasion: Britian. It was Britain who has, time and again, cobbled together alliances to defeat this imperialism.
Both France and Germany recognise that they cannot rule all of Europe on their own, so it has become, through the EU, a joint enterprise. But both realise for their plan to succeed they must isolate and destroy Britain. That is what is happening.

7. David Hurlbut , Monday, August 21, 2023, 12:38:

From the very start of the EEC in 1957 and indeed from before then, there have been efforts, spearheaded by Jean Monnet
and others, to integrate Western European economies in order to form a United States of Europe.
The idea was to create a third superpower to rival those of the USA and USSR.
The French in particular were keen to produce a rival superpower to challenge the United States and the dominance
of "le monde anglo-saxone" - i.e. US, Canada, UK, Australia & New Zealand.
As an integral part of a European superpower, France would thus have more global influence and counter the hated Anglo-American
military, economic and cultural domination of the world.
However, with the collapse of the USSR, the rise of China(ever since the 1990s when it effectively became a capitalist economy) and
the increasing importance of Asian economies such as those in the CPTPP, the protectionist and highly regulated EU is being left behind. Furthermore, I cannot see the former Warsaw Pact East European countries, such as Poland, Hungary ever agreeing to give up their political independence and become provinces of a United States of Europe.
The EU is a dinosaur unable to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

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