If you
thought things are bad in Britain over the EU, with Parliament
lumbered with having to approve the External Action Service, pity poor
Estonia. Tallinn’s government are rushing headlong into the fire, charging into
the Eurozone with unparalleled and unfathomable zealotry, even as 2009 entrant
Slovakia is getting the chilliest of feet over bail out liabilities.
And yet, as
a remarkable poll
shows, if there were a referendum today over Estonia giving up its national
currency, then the No side would
be ten points ahead with another ten per cent undecided.
Such
arrogance amongst the political elite is not new. We saw plenty of it during
the ratification of the EU Constitution. The more one sees of it, the more such
authoritarian paternalism is proven to be inescapably symptomatic of the EU
form of government.
Now,
perhaps someone from the Treasury can explain what they were doing on 13
July in the Council of Ministers endorsing this? Having hoped beyond hope for
the Czechs and the Poles to bail us out and delay signing up to the Lisbon
Treaty, a statement of faith in basic democratic principles might have been justified.
