The story of the EEC and the EU, up to 2009, told in the allegorical style of Animal Farm."As a higher animal, he knew it was his duty not to tax the brains of the lower animals with thoughts which would...

Brussels, 1970: Oskar Lenkeit has been enthralled by the darling of the Berlaymont, right from the first day he met her.But for reasons of his own, he bitterly hates her too.As if life isn't complicated...

London, 1971: Edward Heath is desperate to rush through EEC accession, not least because two-thirds of the electorate are against it.So when a vice ring makes threats against the Prime Minister, Kramer,...

Brussels 1969: Oskar Lenkeit is a fish out of water at the EEC.He's about to find out how far. Echoes from the past are threatening to disturb the three-year-old truce between France and Germany over...

Dublin, 1970: Oskar Lenkeit is a man on a mission, or rather two missions.The East German Stasi want to know why the Irish government have changed their minds about arming the IRA. The French want to...