Little surprise from the London FT as the U.K. was a founding EFTA member.  And like Denmark, Portugal, Austria, Finland and Sweden, has long made the switch to the EU.  Take these countries together with the former COMECON gang (Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Roumania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) - because these countries have in the last 18 years decidely rejected the statist principles guiding COMECON and embraced its opposite - the free and unfettered market (with buckets of cash in recovery aid from whom?...)- and the rump group of founding EU nations find themselves fairly outnumbered.

So, I guess the majority faction and their press organs are free to reinterpret or reinvent the EU's founding, and to kill off or to leave on the orphanage steps their misbegotten projects of the past.  

Meanwhile!...  Smuggling in EFTA's competing principles...

L'inteligence sans volonté n'aboutit à rien, n'est-ce pas?... Mais, la volonté sans intelligence?... Catastrophe!... Celine