David Icke has a tendency to take a lot of things for granted to be true without checking the sources...especially if it fits in his world view.
Here is what I found:
"As the head of France's General Planning Commission, Monnet was the real author of what has become known as the 1950 "Schuman Plan" to create the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), forerunner of the Common Market. "Since Franco-German rivalry is a threat to peace," he said, "let's transform it into a peaceful union. "Let us convert," he continued, "our arsenals of coal and steel into common industrial wealth."
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The following quote is often attributed to Jean Monnet; in fact it is a paraphrase of a characterization of Monnet's intentions by British Conservative Adrian Hilton:
"Europe's nations should be guided towards a super state without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation."
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Monnet is reported to have expressed somewhat similar sentiments, but without the notion of intentional deception, saying "Via money Europe could become political in five years" and "… the current communities should be completed by a Finance Common Market which would lead us to European economic unity. Only then would … the mutual commitments make it fairly easy to produce the political union which is the goal."[6]
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The fact is that Monnet would have had no argument with the sentiments expressed in the quote. Eroplist. Retrieved September 23, 2008.
6 Christopher Booker, and Richard North. 2005.
The Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union. (London, UK: Continuum.
ISBN 9780826476524), 88.