Great Britain has proven not to be European, if Europe should mean more than a loose union as it has been installed, securing the British interests.

David Cameron press conference, Brussels, December 2011

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Strange feelings, if one compares Cameron's statement with an earlier one of 1972 by Andrew Shonfield: Europe: Journey to an Unknown Destination (audio podcast published by the BBC in their Reith-Lectures). In the BBC-page one finds several other radio essays of the days when Britain considered herself European.