“Oh noes!” Say the eurosceptics. “Teh Lisbon tweety dat am weely teh constitootion am gonna make teh EU a state and stuff! Got foreign minister! Oh noes! Dat mean common foreign policy! Our sovereignty gone bye-byes! Waaah!”<\/p>\n
I really can’t ever hope to summarise the likelihood of this particular bogeyman coming into being any time soon better than Nanne at DJ Nozem<\/a>, so instead I’ll just reproduce it in full. <\/a>:<\/p>\n EU Foreign Ministers fail to agree<\/a> on the most basic issues about the status of a small breakaway Yugoslav province (population: 2 million est.) that declared its independence over the weekend.<\/p>\n An issue that had been on the horizon for about, oh, nine years.<\/p>\n How’s that common foreign policy coming along?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He he he!<\/p>\n I do like how many intriguing questions the Kosovo situation is helping to raise. And how many answers it’s providing to boot…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Oh noes!” Say the eurosceptics. “Teh Lisbon tweety dat am weely teh constitootion am gonna make teh EU a state and stuff! Got foreign minister! Oh noes! Dat mean common foreign policy! Our sovereignty gone bye-byes! Waaah!” I really can’t … Continue reading