In 2007, the supposed fiftieth anniversary of the “European Union” (EU) was celebrated. But 50 years ago there was no European Union. What later became the EU was launched with the formation of the European Iron and Coal Community. Following a long step-by-step process, culminating in the Maastricht Treaty, the European Union came into being in 1993. That Union has now, with capitals in Strasbourg, Luxembourg, and Brussels, achieved significant dominance - judicially and legislatively – over what was once the authority of the national governments now part of the European Union.

In 1993, NAU War Room Chairman Howard Phillips led a delegation of some two dozen Americans to visit eight of the countries which were considering approval of the Maastricht Treaty. During the visit to Luxembourg, that country’s Foreign Minister addressed Mr. Phillips and his traveling party, unaware of their skepticism concerning the Maastricht agreement. He confided that, if the people of his country had any idea of what was planned for them, they would rise up in protest. But the plans of the governing elites were kept secret from the people.

In similar fashion, behind closed doors, step-by-step, the leaders of Mexico, Canada, and the United States are setting the stage for, first, a North American Community and, ultimately, a “North American Union” (NAU), in which new transnational bodies would gain authority over our economy, our judiciary, and our lawmaking institutions.

Advocates of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) acknowledge that economic integration is their objective, and that they favor the eventual establishment of a border around the perimeters of Canada and Mexico, with no border control separating the United States and Mexico, or the United States and Canada.

In Europe today, citizens of the 27 constituent states of the European Union can travel virtually at will from country to country. Border control has been surrendered. Each person who enters one EU country is free to travel through any and all of the others with virtually no restrictions.

That is what the elites of the United States, Canada, and Mexico have in mind for us. That helps explain why SPP meetings are routinely held behind closed doors, with little access to SPP deliberations by the general public or even by the media and elected politicians from the three countries.

The future of North America has already been foretold in Europe. And we ignore its clear warning at our own peril.