tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post3797548407476485820..comments2024-01-16T08:40:53.682+00:00Comments on <a href="http://www.openeurope.org.uk">Open Europe</a>: Lords blast EU's Afghan police missionOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00556463374230498875noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-49941108710776830862011-02-17T13:55:55.097+00:002011-02-17T13:55:55.097+00:00Take 27 countries from across Europe, ranging from...Take 27 countries from across Europe, ranging from former Communist states through Eastern Muslim to Christian Western States. Add in an unelected European Commission composed mainly of civilianised apparatchiks , a few inter-state wars and stir. Place a woman in charge who has never been elected in her life: give her an unlimited budget to disburse on grandiose buildings, cars and staff all over the world and call it an External Action Service.<br />The premise that Europe would achieve a common foreign policy with such a disparate set of nations with different ethnic, cultural, religious and historical backgrounds is as fanciful as the concept of a United States of Europe.<br />The sheer irony of Baroness Ashton using, democracy, and free elections in one sentence when addressing the fall of Mubarak, is worthy of a full page article in Private Eye, or any other satirical article. I rest my case.Robert Snarehttp://www.aldershot.ukip.orgnoreply@blogger.com