Letter: Member nations must all be consulted on new EU policy
It's a first! Someone connected to the European Union talking sense.
Anders Borg, the Swedish Finance Minister states: "The European Union needs Britain to stay in the trading zone because it would lack a competitive financial centre without London. It is not realistic to think that Frankfurt or Paris could compete with Hong Kong and New York – it is important for Europe to have a financial hub."
He expressed sympathy with Britain's position, saying:?"We see the euro countries moving in a direction we do not believe in – to create a club within a club is wrong."
The man has hit the nail on the head. The papers are full of 'The European Union does not allow renegotiation' and 'Britain cannot pick and choose which rules it will obey'.
The European Union must face the facts – 17 euro countries with enhanced political commitments going one way and 10 non-euro countries going another is a situation which nobody signed up to! These are serious and fundamental changes to the rules of the club and Brussels cannot bluster its way forward regardless of these facts.
We have stood by and said little while this union has mutated from the Common Market through the EEC, the EC and now the European Union. The European Union as we know it is dead and buried and 27 member nations justifiably deserve a say in any new direction or policy – not just Germany and France.
Bob Wydell
Oswestry
