The EU  A German Ploy  This might be worth mentioning in this article many people in Eastern Europe and elsewhere ie France Russia those Europeans countries that refuse to join many others believe that the European Union is nothing more than a German ploy to control Europe both politically and economically given that Germany is the most economically powerful and populous member of the EU  They say that the success of the EU obliquely fulfills the Third Reichs burning desire for Germany to become The Undisputed Masters of Europe  Should this hypothesis be included in the article or simply written off as a deluded conspiracy theory