This chapter is not just a tribute to Lady Thatcher and her strong and anticipatory vision. Thirty-six years later, Mrs. Thatcher’s prescient Bruges Speech (1988) is still a possible beacon in the fog. Margaret Thatcher had long warned against the drift which Brussels was unfortunately heading for, and above all—without excesses, without provocations, without exaggerations—she had offered a reasonable alternative scheme. But her wise advice has been contradicted by the Brussels mandarins and by statist forces all over Europe.