Did Brexit save Britain from France’s fate?

Stéphane Rozès, the author of a book entitled ‘Chaos’, was on French radio this week receiving congratulations for being a visionary. The chaos which he described in his book, published last November, is now being played out in France, as hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets. Asked to explain its cause, Rozès explained that it has been building since 1992, the year France signed the Maastricht Treaty, the beginning of the European Union. 

Rozès is not alone in this view. One of France’s best known philosophers, the left-wing Michel Onfray, has been saying the same thing for years.

‘France died in 1992, the date of the Maastricht Treaty,’ he said in an interview in 2018. ‘We gave up our sovereignty for a liberal supranational managed by a very autocratic device that has the money, therefore the media, therefore the opinion: what I call the Maastricht State.’

Onfray was naturally delighted with Brexit.