A European project worth plugging
Thursday 30th June 2011, 6:00AM BST.
IT was madness, as some of us argued at the time, to embark on a single currency for Europe without first creating a single European economy, writes Peter Rhodes.
But the experts prevailed, the euro arrived and today lazy, unproductive old Greece is going bust.
It was also madness, as some of us argued at the time, to create the European Arrest Warrant without a common EU legal system. But the experts prevailed, even though the Greek legal system regards plane spotting as espionage while ours regards it a hobby.
And it was certainly madness to embark on a European Constitution when, in their hearts, the French and Germans still want to control their own borders.
The problem with Europe is that it is led by silly people with huge, revolutionary dreams which invariably come crashing down.
How about a few smaller dreams from Brussels?
They could always start with that long-overdue project, the Single European Plug Socket.
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