The History of the EU with David Mitchell
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2024
- When was the EU created? And what is its purpose? Narrated by David Mitchell the film explores how and why The European Union was conceived as well as the major events and key players that helped form the idea from its inception through to obstacles it faces today.
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The Spice Girls' role in the formation of the European Union is something that's often overlooked.
a true neo-churchillian power quartet
Once the Spice Girls broke up, Brexit was only a matter of time.
Did David even need a script for this?
'Bizantine empire' Probably did.
That is the standard pronunciation of "Byzantine" in many dialects (but mostly in North America).
It isn't. From everything I've heard it pronounced in, including Yale lectures, it's pronounced as Bye-zantine.
It is normally either /ˈbɪzəntiːn/ (BIZ-in-teen), /bɪˈzæntaɪn/(bi-ZAN-tine). I'm sure that pronunciation exists, but it is not very common.
EebstertheGreat Look. Everywhere I've heard it, the 'By' is pronounced 'Bye' and 'tine' as 'teen. At the very least, it's just as common, at most, more.
can i get david mitchell to narrate my life?
We're working on it ;)
Oh please no, not me. It's enough... you know... as it is.
Apparently I have David Mitchell's voice. I'll do it for less.
in the most sarcastic way possible?
Yes, but it would only be 3 minutes long.
No one I'd want explaining European history to me more than David Mitchell
how cute, the animators were so lost for a Dutch stereotype that they drew us in Bavarian lederhosen.
Cute, ignorant. Whatever you want to call it.
Mike Spaans At least you don't have that "British" character representing you...now that is appalling
+brandy
I'd rather have a negative stereotype that was mine, than a negative stereotype that wasn't even mine.
windmills
brandybuck1984 Well, it seems kinda accurate based on how Britain's been doing lately. Strong and stable xd
What happened to that friendly Australian girl who narrated these videos?
She's gone. They're all gone.
Mr. March And now we're back.
The insufferably smart people who are still, unaccountably, narrators.
I heard David Mitchell killed her and assumed her identity.
+Andy Brice No she had a sex change and actually IS David Mitchell.
Charles De Gaulle didn't simply say "non", he in fact was very correct in spotting that the UK institutions and electorate culture would not sit easy with the direction of Europe. He instead proposed an associate membership based on free trade........
If he'd been listened too, perhaps Brexit would be a word we didn't even invent.
'We are NOT in the Euro Jeremy!'
This is one of those videos Jeremy would watch and use to rebuke Mark or tell super hans to make himself look clever
"Once the wall had come down and David Hasselhoff had left"
David Mitchell is a blessing for all humanity sent to narrate everything beautiful or even remotely funny.
And more besides!
I like how the frankish empire is a dude with a wine bottle flinging a lobster
Sabrowsky he should at least be eating some rollos
One nitpick, the UK wasn't formed in 1707, that was the Kingdom of Great Britain. The UK was formed by the Acts of Union 1800.
In 1707 the United Kingdom of Great Britain was formed, hence the abbreviation is correct from that date, even if everyone called the country 'Britain' until after WW2 when the use of UK came into being to stop pissing off the Northern Irish.
The Kingdom of Great Britain was a (lower case) united kingdom. However it was not named the United Kingdom of Great Britain, it was the Kingdom of Great Britain, or just Great Britain. The term United Kingdom did not become part of the name until the Acts of Union with Ireland.
If you want to be real pedantic the UK that we know today only came into being in 1922 as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland when the Irish Free State departed.
If you wanna nitpick, SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE OUTFITS.
They gave the Dutch a Swiss/Austrian-outfit...nothing in there is even remotely Dutch.
And we have such Dutch stereotypes to pick from...you could've even given him a joint...whatever...as long as it isn't a whole different country *cries in Dutch*
thats like saying the US was formed in the 1950s
Fun and quickly informative. I liked Sir Humphrey's description the best in the 80s BBC show (pragmatically discussing secret motives), but this was fun.
I really wish we'd have gone with "Jim, the currency" instead of Euro.
I can listen to David narrate anything.. students just learn better with him. Thanks Dave
why does the Dutch guy look stereotypically German
Love how they didn't find a stereotype for luxembourg :P
Because they're basically German anyways.
Welcome Mr/Mrs. Ignorance. How are you today?
No we're not! :P
Swamp Germans,
more David Mitchell please!
Argh.... How can this little video be so very lovely, and then be completely destroyed by the fact that they picture the Dutch guy in a German/Bavarian outfit?!?!?!
Same here! I hate it, I was so excited about it and AAAARRRGHH we're being depicted wrongly yet again.
I'm so sick of that...I mean..other countries complain about having a stereotype, we don't even gét our stereotype!
Why is the Dutchman dressed as an Austrian?
Snakesborough exactly !
@keukenkastje05 Although I agree with you on Hollywood being a bunch of horrible hypocrites, this is not the problem here. This is the problem of Londonistan imperialist globalist assholes. Thank you Farage for liberating us from Londonistan! I love Brexit. I would love the Netherlands to become part of a triple United Kingdom on the condition that Londonistan is not a part of it.
@Snakesborough HAHAHAHAHAHAHA like the Dutch would ever unite with filthy islanders.
hahaha we wouldn't
Good now we have less chance of catching an STD or our children being molested so ain't we both content!
What people always leave out when they quote Churchill's "United States Of Europe" speech was that he never intended the UK to be part of it.
Amazing, fun and interesting. thank you!
YES DAVID MITCHELL
Was that Rob Brydon imitating David Mitchell at the end there? 😂
United Kingdom was formed in 1801. It was Great Britain that came to be in 1707 after the acts of union between England and Scotland.
I don't get this line of reasoning. You are aware that they are both formed in the same landmass and apart from a slightly different name that derived from the same thing and a few more countries thrown in, they are the same, right?
There was never a United Kingdom. Just countries that rich English invaded and stole.
Churchill might have thought a United States of Europe was a good idea but Britain wasn’t part of it !
phiAndpi He wanted us to join
@@veggie42 No, he didn't. This is worth reading (from www.ft.com/content/3d6bbabc-7122-11e6-a0c9-1365ce54b926):
As Churchill urged a Franco-German partnership to lead his vision of a new Europe, he declared that Great Britain and the British Commonwealth, along with the US and USSR, should be “friends and sponsors” of the project. He did not talk of the UK becoming a member itself.
“We are with Europe, but not of it,” he wrote in an earlier essay. “We are linked but not comprised.” That ambiguity has haunted Britain’s relationship with its continental neighbours ever since, culminating in the UK referendum vote on June 23 for Brexit.
First the UK refused to join in 1957, dismissing the negotiations for the Treaty of Rome as irrelevant. Then, when Harold Macmillan changed his mind, for fear of being left out of an economic success story, his membership bid was vetoed by France’s president Charles de Gaulle. When Edward Heath finally succeeded in negotiating membership from 1973, it was seen by many as a defeat for UK exceptionalism, not a victory for European solidarity.
That British attitude is rooted in its imperial history - Churchill’s great passion - and a perception of British security, its interests and its diplomacy, as global, not narrowly European. That feeling, along with resentment at the apparent roles of Germany and France in setting the European agenda, was a constant subtext to arguments in favour of Brexit.
Yet, in spite of the centrality of strategic concerns to the intellectual UK debate on Europe, the subjects of foreign policy and security received scant attention during the referendum campaign. It was dominated instead by the debates on immigration and the economy.
“When foreign, security and defence policy was discussed . . . it was predominantly in terms of the costs and benefits to the UK of being a member of the EU,” says Richard Whitman, professor of politics and international relations at the University of Kent. “There was no substantive rehearsal of what the future EU-UK foreign and security policy relationship might be with the UK outside the EU.”
It was a curious and alarming omission, given that such questions have always been at the heart of British historic hesitation about the EU.
For Churchill, as for the overwhelming majority of the British establishment in those early postwar decades, the British empire (and the Commonwealth that succeeded it) and the “special relationship” with the US, were the nation’s two most important strategic priorities. Nato was seen in London as much the most important alliance in Europe. The Common Market, launched in 1957 by the Treaty of Rome, was seen as largely irrelevant to national security.
In the Brexit camp, the idea of reviving an Anglosphere centred on the “special relationship” between London and Washington (especially in intelligence co-operation), and underpinned by close ties with the “old” Commonwealth of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, was very popular. The question now is whether that romantic attachment to old imperial and English-speaking ties can be turned into an effective policy. The world in 2016 is very different from that of 1946.
“The number one problem is that everyone else has moved on,” says Prof Whitman. “They have been pretty successful at forging ‘post-British’ foreign policy identities.” Australia and New Zealand have refocused their foreign and security policy on the Asia-Pacific region, in which China is the dominant player. Canada has defined itself as an independent-minded US neighbour with increasingly strong Asia links to balance its traditional European ties.
As for the US, successive regimes have made it clear that they see European integration as an essential part of western security policy and they have made no secret of wanting the UK to be a full-hearted player. Opinion in Washington was overwhelmingly opposed to the idea of Brexit during the referendum campaign, with the exception of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate.
The expectation now is that the UK will throw itself with redoubled enthusiasm into beefing up the Nato alliance, to make up for its gradual withdrawal from the EU
Leading members of the Brexit camp, such as David Davis, now the minister responsible for the exit negotiations, and Liam Fox, minister for international trade, have always based their arguments on the irrelevance of the EU to UK security, and the far greater importance of Nato. The expectation now is that the UK will throw itself with redoubled enthusiasm into beefing up the Nato alliance, to make up for its gradual withdrawal from the EU. That could mean bolstering the UK military support for the Baltic republics, however much such a move might infuriate Moscow.
For the rest of the EU, the prospect of UK withdrawal is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, the most serious and rapidly deployable military forces in the EU are those of Britain and France. The UK has played a leading role in the anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia. British diplomats have also played an important role in establishing the European External Action Service - the EU’s own diplomatic arm.
On the other hand, the UK has been increasingly hostile to the development of an EU defence policy, and to any weakening of intergovernmental control (and therefore a national veto) of security policy. British departure from the EU would free the other member states to move forward with the creation of a stronger military operational and planning core, as favoured by France, and more support for a stronger European defence industry.
In the three months since the referendum vote, there has been no indication from Boris Johnson, the new foreign secretary, or prime minister Theresa May as to how they see the future focus of foreign and security policy.
The truth is that the process of negotiating Brexit, and reorganising the UK-EU relationship for the future, is likely to dominate everything else on the British government’s agenda for years to come.
“The UK’s key foreign policy priority for the foreseeable future will be sorting out its relationship with the EU,” says Prof Whitman. “We will have to devote far more energy and effort to the EU than to the wider world. We will need more EU experts than ever before.”
That is the irony of the Brexit decision. At least for the foreseeable future, it will mean a lot more EU, rather than less, on the UK government agenda.
Quentin Peel is the FT’s former international affairs editor
the first thing to unify europe was doggerland, dammit mitchell you were on QI, you should know that.
Finally, a video on this channel worth watching.
Lol! So why did you ever come back to it, if all they produced before you perceived to be not worth your time? That's silly. FYI I'm not defending the channel or its content. This is the only video I've seen, and that was simply David.
Because I remain subscribed in the hope that one day a knight in shinning armor would one day ride in and rescue this channel from inanity. Too bad it only for one video. Actually, I use a Chrome extension called Better Tube that makes it much easier to manage incoming videos and hide the ones you don't care about so it's really no major annoyance to remain subscribed to someone you don't really want to watch that often.
of course it's Dara O'Briain representing the UK at 1:52.
Dara O'Briain is Irish...
floooooooooooooooood No that's Buster Bloodvessel of Bad Manners or that Big Daddy the wrestler lol
Dara is not that short!!!!!!!!!!!!
iwanabana t
Have you ever seen O'Briain? He's lanky, Irish (I had the pleasure to meet him in person when he was the grand marshall for london's st. paddy's day parade last year), and no fatter than any other rando in the country.
Someone did a shitresearch on national dress...
Would that be a Scheisseforschung in your tongue?
And an 'Klote Onderzoek' in my language...jeesh..I'm so dissapointed.
I shouldn't be, I know that. I was just hyperactive and happy about the fact we were being mentioned and we were depicted as frogging Austrians.
Thanks for sharing!
I wish David Mitchell could teach me everything. Wait, is that an option? :)
Eh... why is the Netherlands in this video represented by a South-German / Austrian guy in lederhosen? It's perfectly fine to use stereotypes, but at least pick the right one for the right nation ;)
Should've gone with the "shmoke and a pancake" approach for sure. :P
He must have just borrowed it from his neighbour.
A pile of smoked cheese and clogs crammed into a windmill will do
never mind no-one ever chose for the EU
How do I add Italian subtitles? I'd like to translate what the speaker says and add them to the list.
No Coudenhov-Kalergi then
They left that out
Why is the Dutch person wearing German lederhosen? That's Bavarian!
Maybe he wanted to...what's wrong with that?
"Along with Latvia, Estonia and the Spice Girls." lol :D
Very helpful!!
this is so good and helpfull for my test!
I wonder if David Mitchell and CPG Grey could collaborate on a project.
in this video you forgot to mention that Lithuania also got its independence in 1990 together with Latvia and Estonia...
What about the provisions of the Baarle-Hertog accord?
LOL... "Greece is the Word" I wonder what David was thinking when he read that line. He must have been wondering what in the hell does that mean?
I am watching this for my geography transition work
David sounds slightly higher pitched here, is that weird of me to notice?
I noticed towards the end, but you're right, he is definitely higher pitched.
Perhaps it's slightly sped up. After all, the video's concept was made by boomers and it's supposed to be propaganda. This video was funded by the UK Government. David is merely providing voice-over as it's a lucrative source of income for very little time spent recording.
It just goes to show you can never be too careful
Now let's see Bill Wurtz do a version of this.
Please, Bill.
WTF @ those Swiss clothes for the Dutchman? :D
Ahah I absolutely loved the depictions of Portugal and Spain!!! XD Spot on!!
What is the background music at 2:27?
"Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's 9th Symphony. The anthem of the Council of Europe, sometimes used as the unofficial anthem of the EU.
Latvia and Estonia first popped up in 1918 and regained independence in 91.
Ah, yes, their independence, half of which the Baltic states then threw away when they joined the EU, which is based on an old german model called Limited Sovereignty.
Brilliant.
Latvia and Estonia both had statehood before the Soviet occupation
If I hadn't been told who was narrating, I never would have guessed. I guess his angry logical demeanor really adds to his voice.
Is Mitchell on helium at the end, or is it just an impression?
Why is the Dutch man dressed as a Swiss?
one person says he looks German, one person says he looks Austrian, you say he looks Swiss... good lord people...
german speaking alps then. their culture and therefore how they dress is very similar
0:56 here we see Winston Churchill predating Victoria Coren's "missing vowels" round by about 60 years.
The European Flag was designed in 1955 for the Council of Europe not in 1985, although it was also adopted by the EEC in that year.
A terrible thing that should be abolished, along with the EU.
I am a Dutchman. I was born on soil that always has been part of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands and has always been part of the Holy Roman
Empire, but was never part of the Dutch Republic. If my fellow countrymen decide to make the Netherlands a republic again, I no longer want to be a Dutchman; then I want to be a subject of the Holy Roman Empire. In other words: even after its demise the Holy Roman Empire continues to exist. How more real do you want it to be? Christus
resurrexit! Or as my Greek-orthodox wife would say: Χριστός ἀνέστη!
Oh gods.
As a Dutch person, this triggers me immensely.
The toughest years? For the working class, maybe. I see many banks and other private capitals are doing very, very well.
2:02 how come U. K. and Denmark seem happy about joining. But Ireland looks rather unhappy.
I think he's unhappy because he's been given a bowl of clovers rather than proper food, I'd be pissed too.
and now the U.K. are happy about leaving... times change, seems weird
Ireland and Denmark only joined because Britain did and they didn't want customs duties on the food they sell us. Ironic.
Schuman was from Luxembourg, there's no mention of it. His nationality was critical in the creation of EU.
Churchill had no part of this history, why is he mentioned?
It's a piece of propaganda. They put Churchill in to annoy supporters of Brexit, because they think that supporters of Brexit all worship Winston Churchill and will burst into tears, or something, when told that Winston Churchill advocated a united Europe.
Yes
Churchill credited, Coudenhove-Kalergi not mentioned; no explanation given why so many countries joined
When I saw Portugal holding that rooster, I laughed pretty hard. It's true, go into any Portuguese house (or shop) and you'll see a ceramic of that rooster.
My sister went to Faro on holiday and bought me a tea towel as a souvenir featuring that very rooster.
Why you didn't mentioned Kalergi Plan?
Better than my lecturer
A bit of a nitpick, but while Churchil did want the creation of a United States of Europe, Schuman was not following his ideas at all. Schuman thought that European integration was a good thing, but did not push for a united europe the way that chruchil did. He instead believed that by linking together party of the nations gradually, integration could be advanced. Chruchil also didn't want the UK in the united states of europe he proposed, so I guess in the end he got his wish.
Schuman along its colleagues was pro Federal Europe. I don't know if Churchill agreed
2:00 LMAO the Irish person joining the table only has clovers to eat. Savage!
Not clovers, shamrocks: a symbol of St. Patrick and by extension, Ireland.
That Dutchman looks suspiciously Bavarian....
1:36 It's also that the Rhine and western alp region contains something like 90% of the steel and coal on continental Europe, part of the reason why these countries were fighting was to get a hold of one another's steel and or coal, by offering to share it under market forms they eliminated the need to fight over it.
The open university got a lot of funding from the eu, so this video makes sense. The comedy factor is good though.
Is it? It is not only riddled with errors and political bias, but cringingly unfunny.
Didn't mention Jean Monnet
Hmm, the 1707 Acts of Union were between England and Scotland, this produced the Kingdom of Great Britain not the United Kingdom. The Acts of Union of 1800 which united Great Britain and Ireland produced the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the United Kingdom as it's more commonly called. Having said that David Mitchells degree is only in Modern History so maybe he didn't go back that far (g).
But when does he go over the 5,723 provisions affecting the enclave of Baarle Hertog in the Treaty of Mastricht?
The preamble might have been slightly more historically useful if, instead of apparently confirming my old assumptions about the Holy Roman Empire, it had said "The Holy Roman Empire which was like the Roman Empire, but more *German*." The HRE wasn't very Roman and it certainly wasn't at all Holy. As far as I can tell it consisted of the Catholic parts of non-Lutheran Germany, in the form of a lot of tiny principalities and duchies. Still, we got a couple of Kings out of it.
0:31 Wrong, that was the formation of Great Britain. The United Kingdom was formed in 1801.
The formation of Great Britain probably happened around the end of the last ice age when it was cut off from other landmasses. The United Kingdom of Great Britain was formed in 1707.
@@thomascoppens8498 Look it up. Its easy to find. The entity created by the two acts of 1707 uniting the two crowns was called Great Britain. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was formed in 1801 by the Act of Union. This became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the Irish War of Independence. I suppose if Northern Ireland left it could go back to Great Britain again, the same as the geographical name. Unless the Scots were to leave first, in which case you could invent some other name, God knows what.
I thought this was the map for red dead redemption 2
Could we have David do one about the actual current debate we are having about the EU?
2:29 Which one of those two is the former East Germany, and which one is West.
3:17 they can have our spot...
That Dutch stereotype is very un-dutch.
And very Austrian.
Latvia actually was created in 1918, originally.
I think the euro would have been much more popular were it named 'Jim the currency'
valentin v or European Pound?
Who wrote this?
The narrator sounds like peep show's David Mitchell!
where was Sweden in this video?
>the first two empires he mentioned are the same damn thing.
Roman and Byzantine? Except the Byzantine Empire split off the main Roman Empire and outlasted it by almost a millennium? And how the Roman Empire was run by Romans, while the Byzantine Empire was run by Greeks?
no, i am pretty sure i was right.
what with the Roman Empire being the Roman Empire, regardless of the petty jealousies of silly western europeans becoming "historical fact".
Vathek The Byzantines never reffered to themselves as such, they reffered to themselves as Romans. Even during Ottoman rule they were still reffered to as Romans until the 1800s. Only in Western Europe are Byzantines considered seperate from the Roman Empire.
It would be stupid to not differentiate between the two. The Fall of Rome is a major theme in western Europe and an important part of our history regardless of Greeks continuing to claim the title. I mean, by that logic the roman empire never fell as every cocking chieftain and king after the fall of Rome has declared themselves the successor to Rome.
To summarize: Yes, it is very cute that you think you are special and no one else could possibly match your boundless knowledge.
Stingetan but other states called then the eastern ROMAN empire, the term Byzantine empire is relatively New. Europe considered them Roman
Did David inhale a bit of helium at 3:23 or what?
I didn't know Grease was part of the EU.
Or how to spell "Greece"
*Whoosh* 2:09 - Greece is represented by a caricature that looks remarkably like Danny Zuko from Grease holding a gyro. But sure, please correct me on the Internet.
yoog
No problem ;)
Let's call it what it is; Centralization of Power.
i saw a ukip poster with winson churchill on, what the hell?
So the food chosen to represent Denmark is a big pile of bacon? I am okay with that.
I don't think the pigs are.
Could that nondescript little Luxembourger possibly be a pre-opening hours ca.1965 Jean-Claude Juncker? See how quickly he moves in on France & Germany when he gets a sniff of the alcohol... bit of a giveaway.
Latvia was founded in 1918?
Slight correction: Croatia has been around longer than "United Kingdom". It's not a new country at all. Although it did disappear for a while.
LrsLzk Correct
When is the start of Croatian history?
The Duchy of Croatia sprung up from the Byzantine Empire in the 8th or 9th century, I forget which. But as you can see it's by no means a 'new' country but larger neighbours such as Hungary have owned the territory for times since then.
EDIT: Although this was I believe the first time "Croatia" was used, their peoples had established history before the Romans took over their land. Illyrian tribes such as Dalmatae (where the modern day region of Dalmatia gets its name from) inhabited the land during Antiquity. I can't give you too much detail about this time because I've not studied it much, just like to educate myself on different periods of history when I'm bored throughout long days. ^^
Awesome, thanks for the starting point for some googling myself! Otherwise I'd carry on thinking it just popped up after Yugoslavia
You'll not have been alone in thinking that; it's a common misconception. Happy researching. :-)
Estonia popped up in the nineties, yet they declared independence in 1918? I guess if you are imprisoned in you twenties and are released years later, you just popped up.
In 1:32 only 1 part of the Germany joined i mean GFR
Well that's... elementary
Where is Sweden?? Did I miss it? XD