Britain's first attempt to get into the EU was vetoed by de Gaulle; a strange was of repaying the UK's effort in getting France a permanent seat on the UN security council in 1945.
That never really changed, although Britain eventually gave up most of these conditions, when they finally joined.
And then still left eventually (well, this is in progress) because of exactly these reasons. De Gaulle was absolutely right on this.
What an accurate analisys of a major geopolitical event!
Sadly he was maybe a little too good at it, because now my country is frozen in an incessant quest to find a new De Gaulle; we can't accept the idea that politician - even president - are flawed and make mistakes, so we call all of them "bad", "wrong choice", ... That's why our president always have rock bottom public opinion.