Europe

[Adrian II]

why?

why is political integration necessary?

I just told you.

Because this world is unforgiving, my friends. I am amazed that I have to remind someone like Fragony of that; I am supposed to be the dreamer, remember.

How many times have the Americans asked us to pull our weight in international affairs? And how many times did we have to answer that all we had was a dead weight, a community of lazy, inward-looking shopkeepers. And yes, the Napoleon reference is intentional.

What challenge, the only challenge is what eurocrats have set out for theirselves.

Oh haha, now Brussels is blamed for globalisation, Chinese expansion, the credit crunch, Pakistan's nuclear bomb and all the other challenges we face? Do you really think those challenges only exist in the minds of Brussels bureaucrats? This is getting weirder and weirder.

If this in indicative of the new formation in European politics, we should count ourselves lucky that they will be next year's wallpaper.