Julian Steven Lindley-French: France and Germany’s past actions expose their current plea for “solidarity” as empty rhetoric. What they really want is more money from the British taxpayer. It will be gladly handed over, but only after they emerge from their Euro fantasy land and take real steps to solve the crisis. (Start with booting Greece.)
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The European Union has forged a peculiar type of bureaucracy. ++ Eurocrats are a class of true believers who see their role in furthering European integration as not merely a job but a divine calling. ++ As the defenders of a greater ideal against the evils of nationalism, Eurocrats have developed a disdain for the inconvenient realities of democratic dialogue. ++ An elected yet unaccountable
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