Robert Ball

Robert Ball was born in Kenya in 1940, where his parents farmed in the Highlands until 1973, thereafter retiring to their Coastal home near Mombasa. Robert was educated in England at Marlborough College and at King’s College, Cambridge where he graduated in Natural Sciences. His professional career with an international farm equipment company took him to over 100 countries worldwide, with special experience in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the U.S. Robert’s personal awareness of the European Project began in 1958 when spending his “gap year” as an intern in a French agricultural college outside Paris. Harold MacMillan, then Britain’s Prime Minister, was voicing opposition to Britain joining the then incipient “Common Market”. Robert sided with that position; his fellow students simply named him “MacMillan” – never caring to know his real name. His initial article written about Brexit and the E.U. spans the nearly 60-year period from then to the present, reflecting the writer’s constant concern over what he always saw as a critical error of British policy.