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Chapter 978
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Starlin was doing his best to inspect his military enterprises in various places and was worried about the defense of the bear, in Europe, in Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich, the first European Union summit was coming to an end.
After a week of heated discussions, under the frank (threat) and friendly (inducement) exchanges in Mainz, the leaders of European countries attending this meeting have always believed that in order to protect European countries, especially those small and weak European countries on the periphery from the invasion of powerful enemies, they must unite and form a European common alliance with the Third Reich as the core!
In this way, they can resist the threat of foreign enemies!
Therefore, with the unanimous consent of all countries, this EU summit began the first round of voting on the establishment of the European Union!
“Everyone, please vote. Those who agree to form the European Union, please raise your hands!”
Mainz glanced at the people in the conference hall and said in a deep voice.
Many of the participants did not want to form a European Union. For example, countries like Switzerland have remained neutral for hundreds of years and are unwilling to get involved in the mess in Europe, so as not to be implicated.
And their attitude was also welcomed by European countries earlier, so Switzerland was able to officially become the first permanent neutral country in Europe. Even during the First World War and even the Second World War, no one attacked them!
Even during World War II, the mustache used the Swiss channel to sell a large amount of assets plundered by the Third Reich from other countries during the war through the Swiss Bank, raising a lot of funds for the empire.
If there were no special If special circumstances arise, the neutral status of Swiss will not change, and they themselves are unwilling to give up their neutral status, so the attitude of Swiss people towards various international organizations in the world is basically to keep a distance.
What League of Nations, what European Union, what Allies, what Axis Powers, they are not interested in any of them, the only thing they are interested in is to ensure their independent sovereignty!
Originally, with the poor mountainous location of Swiss, there are really not many people who can look up to them. Swiss, located in the Alps, can be said to be located on the mountains. This poor terrain makes the usable land area of Swiss very small, so their population is also small, because there is too little arable land to feed too many people!
In addition, as it is a landlocked country without its own outlet to the sea, and they are very cautious about their relations with other countries, the economy of Switzerland is not that good, and can only be considered average in Europe.
To be honest, few people would look up to a country with a small area, poor land, lack of natural resources, high altitude, tough folk customs, and great difficulty in conquering it!
Probably only a country like Russia, which is fanatical about land to a certain extent, would do everything to conquer them!
Such terrain and such conditions, although not very favorable to the economy, have ensured the independent status of Switzerland, so the people of Switzerland are relatively satisfied with their own situation.
They don’t think that any major country would take this piece of land of theirs!
As a result, when Mainz advocated the establishment of the EU, When the European Union was established, covering all European countries, the people of Swiss began to panic!
Although Swiss remained neutral and was unwilling to join various international organizations, this did not negate the identity of the four European countries!
European countries must participate in the European Union led by the Third Reich, otherwise they would not be regarded as European countries!
If it was just a difference in identity, then the people of Swiss would not care much.
However, the problem now is that once the European Union is established, almost all of the countries around Swiss will be EU countries, and the current national borders between EU member states will gradually be abolished, but for countries outside the region, they basically hold a strict defense attitude!
If Swiss does not choose to join the EU, they will be isolated by their neighboring countries in a minute.
And Swiss, which lacks an outlet to the sea and relies entirely on railways and roads for transportation, and everything must pass through the territory of its neighboring countries, will not be able to survive if it is isolated by its neighboring countries!
Therefore, they must do something to prevent this from happening!
And all this, the national leader of Swiss is not so much to attend the first European Union leaders’ summit, but rather to try to lobby the head of the Third Reich, His Excellency Mainz.
I hope that the other party can take care of the feelings of the people of Swiss, give them a break, and not force them into the scope of the European Union!
However, before these words came out, he was shocked by the content of the meeting!
Things seem to be more serious than he imagined. After European countries join the European Union, in addition to continuing to have the right to govern their own countries, the power of diplomacy and national defense will be in the hands of the European presidency!
And the identity of the European presidency, there is no need to think too much, it is the Third Reich, the most powerful in Europe and even in the world!
In other words, once countries join the European Union, they will open up a large number of their own fields to the Third Reich and transfer a lot of power.
If these contents are voted through, Swiss will not be able to lobby Mainz privately, and even if they successfully lobby Mainz, it will not be of much significance!
When the Third Reich really completes the integration of the whole of Europe, Swiss will not be able to not join the European Union. If they leave the European Union, they can’t even survive!
So the Swiss wisely kept silent!
Like Swiss, many leaders of small countries also kept silent!
The conditions offered by the Third Reich sounded really harsh. They were asked to surrender their military dominance and give up their diplomatic power, which greatly damaged their national sovereignty and national interests, so they felt repulsive from the bottom of their hearts.
However, on the other hand, because small countries are relatively weak in their own strength, when facing big countries, both sides are seriously unequal in military and diplomatic strength!
So when facing big countries, they will suffer a great loss in these two aspects.
However, if all these dominances are handed over to the European Union, or to the Third Reich, with the strength of the Third Reich, other countries will not be able to gain any advantage at the negotiating table. Moreover, with the strength of the German army, the possibility of them being threatened by military means has been reduced to the lowest point. They can develop their own economy peacefully without worrying about national security, diplomacy and other things!