jim;//Anyone would think it was 1805 all over again. //
A battle the Brits won, n'est pas?
If anyone wonders why the EU badly needs so much dough from the UK to cover salaries and pensions, in an interview 3 years ago, (I'll bet the situation is even worse now) with the rather good, Vaclav Klaus, the former Czech President he said, " A few days ago I studied the names of the EU commisioners under Mr Junker, and their portfolios. We in my country say that 16 is already too high for having meaningful portfolios. But the EU has 26. If you look at the names of those portfolios, I really don't believe my eyes.
The former Estonian prime minister is a commissioner for digital markets. As an economist I really don't know what "digital markets" means. Plus there is another, a German politician, Gunther Oettinger, who is the commissioner for "digital economy and society". We would laugh in the communist era to have such names for members of our cabinet. I can't imagine what these commissioners are doing."
Neither can I, can you?