Comments on: Britain and the building

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:23:23 +0000

Did you read the article at all? Corbett dealt with why the building was necessary for an enlarged EU. It can and it must be cut you say – this is not so easily done once ground has been broken and contracts have been signed – the savings made from any potential cuts would be minimal and the loses in infrastructure very large.

I presume given your indignant atitude to the EU you must be livid at the costs of NATO’s building as dealt with in the article- but you haven’t mentioned that- you chose instead to go on about pensions that aren’t even mentioned here.

By: Jean-Guy GIRAUD

Jean-Guy GIRAUD — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:28:04 +0000

Richard Corbett gives us yet an other demonstration of the chronic distortion of european news by part of tne British press . Over the last 20 years , the Murdoch media have created in the british (and irish) public a pavlovian anti-european syndrome that is also exploited by other media (ie. BBC) for demagogic purposes.

What remains a mystery is why Mr. Murdoch has, in the first instance and of all possible targets, choosen the EU as its best ennemy and its main bait for its credulous public. It could have been the UN, the Pope, the Greens, the Italians, the French, etc…What is also surprising is that no exhaustive and documented enquiry has yet been conducted on the anti-european bias of the Murdoch press.

We now hear that Murdoch has in fact brought himself into disrepute – not because of its chronic violation of all jounalistic deontology – but because of illegal investigation methods. Let’s hope that the Murdoch press – if it survives that episode – will give up shooting at scape goats and leave EU reporting to other more responsible and competent british media.

By: James PAtterson

James PAtterson — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 08:16:59 +0000

This man is cheap and pathetic, just a euro-bureaucrat defending his own -and his peers- privilege.
Why doesn’t he recognise that a mistake has been made (even if now it’s too late to go back)?
Because in doing so, he would be forced to recognise that the future EU budget can be cut. It can and it must be cut. Let’s cut euro-bureaucrats (can’t they find a proper job in their country?). Let’s cut euro-privileges (why do I have to pay higher pensions for the euro-bureaucrats?).
Let’s Europe, not Britain, pay the price for the crisis!