Did the US, NATO and the EU prepare a plan to create a European superstate? No, that's not true. The false claim refers to a 7-year-old article from 27 June 2016 published on the website of Polish state television TVP INFO which misinterpreted a document of at that time German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his then French colleague Jean-Marc Ayrault.
The claim appeared again in a TikTok video (archived here) which was published by @babis_je_nejlepsi on May 25, 2023. It opened in Czech, translated by Lead Stories staff as follows:
At the meeting of the Vyšehrad Four, the Federal President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, presented a 9-page declaration about the creation of the European superstate.
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Tue Aug 1 07:57:26 2023 UTC)
The document of Steinmeier who is Germany's president and Ayrault who isn't in politics any longer, was a working paper that was published one day after the Brexit referendum on 23 June 2016. The document discussed the loss of the UK as an EU member state for close cooperation within the EU concerning security, migration, economic and monetary politics. But there was no evidence of a plan to create a superstate, a new world order or a war.
Also, since 2016 there has been no evidence that a plan to create a European superstate would be in motion. The superstate claim is one of many among the conspiracies which came along with Brexit.
