Well it's doubtful that France, with its strong Gaullist traditions, will ever surrender sufficient control over budget-making to a centralised extra-territorial authority (Brussels or Berlin, depending on where you think the power would in practice reside).

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Events proved Goering wrong, and in fact only a single territory was ever brought to surrender by air power alone the Italian island of Pantelleria, halfway between Sicily and Libya, in 1943.

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In its stead we have the virtues of unlimited empathy, fairness, solidarity, and the surrender of ever bigger slices of our take-home pay.

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