Here’s another European politician who may not quite have understood the implications of the EU elections. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (not a bad guy, but like so many on the Danish center-right, he has a blind spot when it comes to the EU) has announced that the “most important signal from the elections was that we must bring the EU much closer to [its] citizens.”

Well no, Anders. The real signal from those elections was that most of the EU’s citizens want Brussels to be kept as far away from them as possible. Try listening.