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  • Methinks that's extremely unlikely. What you suggest is almost certainly reinterpreting post-war/early EU realities with the sovereignty obsessed Anglo-Saxon lens that culminated with Vote Leave's "Take back control" slogan and Brexit. Until former Eastern block countries joined (the Visegrad Group in particular), the UK was the only country concerned to the point of obsession with transferring sovereignty to EU institutions. Commented Aug 1, 2019 at 12:59
  • @DenisdeBernardy could you rephrase that please? I can't tell what you mean for sure. I was basing my answer on what I remember from the time before the treaty was passed in all EU countries. Commented Aug 2, 2019 at 10:09
  • I'm saying that what you wrote (i.e. public concerns over loss of sovereignty) is not something anyone saw as a problem or cared about at the time. It's only after the UK joined the EU that it became a thing (culminating in Brexit), and it did so only as political talking points in Anglo-Saxon media outlets. Commented Aug 2, 2019 at 10:24
  • Short of asking you to prove a negative, do you have any examples from the time? I wasn't around for Earlier UK referenda, them joining in 1974, or the time before the EU. Commented Aug 6, 2019 at 11:03
  • No need to go that far back, just take a substantive look at the debates on continental European news channels. Until the Visegrad group joined, just about no one outside of the Anglo-Saxon news bubble and a few odd extreme right wing groups was kicking and screaming about the EU making a dent on their nation's sovereignty. Take those apart, and the only questions being asked in 1990s news outlets were how much integration do we want, how much worker/consumer protection do we want, and where does the EU stop (aka should Turkey and Mediterranean countries be able to join)? Commented Aug 6, 2019 at 11:20