Spain will be voting in the EU referendum on the 20th. The vote will be a yes, but the turnout will probably be low, not something that Brussels will like too much (remember that the constitution was meant to rekindle popular enthusiasm for the European ‘project’), and so Spanish PM Zapatero has bringing in, um, celebrities such as Jacques Chirac to stir things up a little. One of these guests, Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1968’s ‘Danny Le Rouge’), a prominent member of the European Parliament, had this to say:

“If the EU constitution fails, they will be toasting with champagne at the White House. A weak Europe is what the US wants.”

Actually, Daniel, a free market Europe made up of sovereign nations would be far stronger, but Cohn-Bendit’s comments are just another reminder that the foundations of this new, deeper EU are profoundly anti-American. In a way they have to be. The EU cannot define itself by what it is (who would rally round a corrupt, and pointless, bureaucracy?), and so has to define itself by what it is not.

America.