Several countries, including the UK, [are] concerned that a wide-ranging debate on new EU treaties could lead to acrimonious fights within each member state that could destabilise the union. (src)
'Concerned'? I thought it was common knowledge that the
raison d'être of UK membership of the EU was so that we could destabilise it from within:
Inside, we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased; it's just like old times.
Which of course is why we needed the Poles, the Slovaks and the rest in before the current crisis:
The more members it has, the more arguments it can stir up. The more futile and impotent it becomes.
It's called diplomacy.
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...in which Phil tries on his best jaded, cycnical and bitter old man look, in order to counter the freshness that got him ID'd the other day.
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