The Eurocrat mindset

Anthony Browne in the Spectator looks at the bureaucratic, despotic mentality of the Eurocrats, whose agenda to take over Europe, having been submitted to the will of the people, is now, blessedly, in crisis:

When I asked Margot Wallström, the vice-president of the [European] Commission, why the hours that doctors work in hospitals were being decided at Continental level [in the proposed EU constitution] rather than being left to national parliaments or even hospitals, she replied, ‘Are you in favour of doctors being overworked?’

Browne argues that the French dirigiste model for Europe is foundering, and needs to be replaced by the (as the French disdainfully call it) Anglo-Saxon model.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 03, 2005 07:06 AM | Send