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"despite intense British efforts to strip out financial services and give it to an economic liberal because of fears in the City of a new bout of regulation."

It's bad enough that the City should own the UK government. Why should they dictate EU policy?

"As part of a deal to calm fears in London,..."

When will we stop constantly placating British fears? It's one country out of 27, the one that tries to fight the EU project, they have been granted the position of High Commissioner, yet we feel forced to comply when they come back screaming for more?

"Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. - Galbraith"

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Sat Nov 28th, 2009 at 12:58:44 PM EST
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True! But this is 1) the anglo press and 2) murdoch. The account given might be self-serving!
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sat Nov 28th, 2009 at 01:04:31 PM EST
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