To such people the tunnel is Maastricht set literally in concrete, unwanted, unneeded and foisted upon us. But this is surely a nonsensical conceit.
The British will remain British. If anyone has anything to fear from the tunnel it is probably the burghers of Calais, who have suffered long enough from our national addiction to cheap drink without having even more of us visited upon their historic but unlovely town. The importance of the tunnel is both real and metaphysical. It is a means to an end, or rather to two ends; for us to get ourselves and our produce there, and for them and theirs to get here.
The implications for infrastructure will multiply irresistibly, reprimanding us for our initial dilatoriness. In time we shall get the designated link to London and the refurbishment of rail lines to the north which ought to have been in place already today.
But meanwhile Europe will creep ever more closely in on our minds. This is a two-way link. Paris for lunch for Londoners also means London for lunch for Parisians. And with every British journey closer to the heart of Europe, Europe gets closer to the heart of the British: with inexorable and hopeful consequences for us all. It is not a series of individual or compartmentalised bilateral policies and never has been.
It is the policy of one continent to another. On a good day, this is considered in France as an indication of the total incompatibility of Great Britain and the Continent and on a bad day as proof positive of a plot to sabotage any effort to build a united Europe.
French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, who often despairs in private of the lack of Anglo-French understanding and hides his face every time the war of the tabloids starts up again, would be particularly glad to hear the words of Raymond Seitz. But only in private: with a mentor like Georges Pompidou - whom orthodox Gaullists will never forgive for letting Britain into the European Community - caution is his middle name.
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