1. ACQUIS

a) The body which runs the EEC. Normally, a commission is a body which carries out the wishes of others. This one has dispensed with that encumbrance; it devises the laws itself.

2. BRUSSELS

b) A good thing. This is what we are promised if we accept political union. If we do not, the Germans threaten, we shall get a German Europe.

3. DIRECTIVES

c) A slang phrase, meaning the way Europe is run.

4. EUROPEAN COMMISSION

d) The carrying out of rules made in Brussels. An unworkable practice attempted only in the United Kingdom.

5. EUROPEAN GERMANY

e) Whatever the Community has agreed on already. Britain constantly discovers that it has agreed to things of which it was unaware at the time.

6. FRANCO-GERMAN AXIS

f) The process of European union is inevitable, as were the collapse of capitalism, the victory of Napoleon's empire, and the thousand-year Reich.

7. IMPLEMENTATION

g) The Belgian capital, scene of a great ball before the defeat of the French at Waterloo. Today the setting for the long drawn-out humiliation of Britain. Boasts a wide range of good restaurants.

8. INEVITABLE

h) A politician who warned the British people that if they voted for entry to the EEC, they would be handing their sovereignty over to others. An obvious madman.

9. JAPAN

i) Money for poorer countries, and poor bits of rich countries. If EMU comes about, entire economies will subsist on structural funds.

10. MEGAPHONE DIPLOMACY

j) (...) A new word for a trade rival.

11. NO. NO. NO.

k) Formerly this meant people or countries working together politically. The phrase now means a foreign policy acceptable to all the (...) Community members. At the time of writing, they are still working on it.

12. PARTNER

l) Saying what you think. Not communautaire

13. POLITICAL COOPERATION

m) Orders from Brussels. Member states can choose the means by which they carry them out. To be distinguished from Regulations, which must be carried out exactly as Brussels says. (...).

14. POWELL, ENOCH

n) Another isolated island. It has no plans to be part of a union with anyone or to jettison its currency. Curiously enough, it does quite well economically.

15. QUALIFIED MAJORITY VOTE

o) Defence, with which it should not be confused

16. SECURITY

p) The power granted to each EEC/ EU member state to prevent a measure of which it disapproves. Must never be used because its user will experience Isolation.

17. STRUCTURAL FUNDS

q) This was entrenched in the Single European Act. Mrs Thatcher thought it was only there to speed up a few useful free trade measures. Soon it will be the way in which Europe decides whether to got to war.

18. THATCHER, MARGARET

r) Three extremely rude words. Mrs Thatcher used them in the House of Commons on 30 October 1990 (...).

19. UNITED STATES OF EUROPE

s) A woman who pointed out the shortcomings of the EEC/EU, thereby misunderstanding its conventions. She was duly ambushed at the Rome summit in 1990, and has scarcely been heard of again.

20. VETO

t) One of the things that Nobody is talking about. It will be achieved by the end of the century.