Boris Johnson desires a political union that includes not only the EU but also the former realm of the Roman Empire. This essentially renders Boris Johnson's dream as him wanting to recreate the entire roman empire.
The Financial Times revealed on Wednesday that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was supposedly so taken with French President Emmanuel Macron's proposal for a "European Political Community" that would include not only the EU but also Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine, and the UK, that he claimed it as his own and described it as a contemporary version of the Roman Empire.
In an interview with reporters on Tuesday while en route to Madrid for a NATO summit, Johnson revealed his modern Imperium would extend from the UK to the Maghreb region of northern Africa and eastward to Turkey and Ukraine. He claimed he had come up with Macron's notion "back when I first became foreign secretary" and that he thought "we should basically be recreating the Mare Nostrum of the ...