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The European project depends, far more than is generally appreciated, on a sense of inevitability. Voters might not care very much for the constant transfers of power to the EU but, as long as they believe that they can’t be stopped, they put up with them. The phenomenon is known in Brussels as the “occupied field doctrine”: once the EU has acted in any area of policy, its jurisdiction in that area is guaranteed in perpetuity.

Repealing a goodly chunk of Schengen would, of course, shatter that doctrine. People might start demanding the return of all sorts of powers. Why should the EU run agriculture given the disastrous mess it has made of the CAP? Or fisheries? Or monetary policy?

(Rajendra) Pachauri heeft persoonlijk financieel belang bij onderzoek naar de 'smeltende' gletsjers, omdat hij een onderzoeksbureau heeft - Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Dehli, dat veel subsidiegeld binnenhaalt.

Volgens The Times heeft de Indiër een groot deel van de 2,7 miljoen euro subsidie van de Europese Unie binnen gehaald om onderzoek te doen naar de klimaatproblematiek, die dus niet blijkt te bestaan.

JOURNALIST AND author Nell McCafferty wants to live “under the protection of the EU” and not “in a country ruled exclusively by this or any other Irish government” [an insanely stupid comment - she has let the cat out of the bag by admitting the real purpose of EU integration]

Accompanied by a militaristic flag-raising ceremony and the strains of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy — the European anthem — the new members of the most Eurosceptic European Parliament gathered in Strasbourg yesterday to begin work.

Hans-Gert Pöttering, the outgoing President of the Parliament, urged MEPs to unite to freeze "anti-Europeans" out of the decision-making process for the next five years.