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In which case I really dont see what point you're trying to make. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
By the way, it may have escaped attention that what we are discussing is an accounting exercise i.e. all the political questions have already been decided as far as the present financial perspectives are concerned. It is up to the accountants in the Commission and capitals simply to keep the books straight.
One of the intriguing features for the future is that the Own Resources decision (i.e. that which decides the funds that are levied on Member States) includes the mechanism and provides that this continues until it is replaced, the decision to be taken unanimously.
Kohl and company must have been asleep in Fontainebleau.
However, even UK brass neck is unlikely to stretch to asking other Member States to work out Iceland's (or Croatia's) share of "allocated expenditure".
That would take all the fun out of it.
I would have thought you'd appreciate the opportunity to state your position in the form of a unified argument, instead of in dribs and drabs.
But what do I know? The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/6194800/EU-farms-cash-is-the-root-of-conflict.html
I take it you're not used to discourse on Scoop-type community blogs.
The point of diaries is that each of us does our own "heavy lifting": each one of us has the opportunity to present something - an incident, report, situation - and analyze it, and explain why we find merit in it, or why we don't. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
You take it upon yourselves to qualify some sources as "eurosceptic" and, therefore, to be unworthy of consideration.
Why not organize a book-burning while you are at it?
For the record, I post for an audience wider than the responses that I get. It is up to that audience, if there is any, to come to its own opinion.
To say that we are akin to book burners, because we aren't bowing down before the Idols of a lunatic cult is particularly insulting Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
(I must admit the notion that I'm a Nazi because I consider the Daily Telegraph to be a Eurosceptic newspaper has me smiling).
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However, you might want to check the attitude. Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
The reasoning in these responses leaves me flabbergasted.
New User Guide.
Doggerel. Why I won't read your book.
Galileo Gambit. Godwin Alert.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
The comments in your diary would serve debate just like the comments in this diary written by afew. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
