To an outsider here in Brussels, Britain’s stance towards Europe is utterly incomprehensible. Like it or not, the EU is the largest market in the world, while the unification process has ensured that, for the first time in our continent’s history, war is just a distant memory of the past, not a bleak prospect for the future.
Take every issue that really matters to our troubled world, from environmental protection, to human rights, democracy and peace, and you will see that Europe is a ...
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