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Lets remeber this piece was written for the Torygraph and must thus include the obligatory anti-Brussels bureaucracy phrases and codewords to pass editorial muster, regardless of their accuracy or relevance to the other points being made.

That the EU elite have been slow to respond to the crisis in any coordinated way seems an uncontroversial assertion, but what is remarkable for the Telegraph is that it is actually looking to the EU for such a coordinated response.  Normally it would be trumpeting British nationalism and the British Government's unalienable Sovereign right to tackle the crisis on its own soil in it own way without "interference" from Brussels.  

That the article trumpets the Euro as being successful and resilient is even more remarkable.  I have no difficulty with calls for making EU decision making process more efficient, effective, transparent, and democratically accountable.  What is remarkable is for the Torygraph to want it to work at all.

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 06:10:06 PM EST
Indeed.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 03:32:52 AM EST
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