[Gabriel Byng]
The EU, to the average right-wing Europhobe, is a communist plot: a last, sneaky, Stalinist attempt to force Europe into a left-wing economic strait-jacket and liberal economics into a Siberian gulag. A trawl through the Telegraph comment pages or a scan through CU Conservative Association’s blog displays a deep set belief that, in addition […]
A bureaucratic hell-hole?
Central European unease
[Sonia Urbancikova]
The strains of the Ode to Joy echoed out once again last December as the leaders of the twenty-seven EU member states met in Lisbon to sign the new EU Treaty. Its stated aim is to “streamline decision-making in the newly expanded bloc”. But the EU’s federalising tendencies completely ignore the fact that the […]