Comments on: The cowardly EU http://blogs.euobserver.com/waterfield/2009/03/23/the-cowardly-eu/ Bruno Waterfield has been Brussels correspondent for The Daily Telegraph since December 2006. He has been reporting on the EU and European affairs since 2000, first from Westminster and then from Brussels since January 2003. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:20:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: al http://blogs.euobserver.com/waterfield/2009/03/23/the-cowardly-eu/comment-page-1/#comment-1596 al Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:30:06 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/waterfield/?p=31#comment-1596 I like how those who oppose what Mr Waterfield has to say can only do so through infantile personal attacks and rhetoric. Kind of vindicates him, I think, even more than what Europhiles like Habsburg and Kohl say openly. Never mind Barroso, who showed his open contempt—how do you like being told that you (yes you) "would not understand"? Good little subjects. I like how those who oppose what Mr Waterfield has to say can only do so through infantile personal attacks and rhetoric. Kind of vindicates him, I think, even more than what Europhiles like Habsburg and Kohl say openly. Never mind Barroso, who showed his open contempt—how do you like being told that you (yes you) “would not understand”? Good little subjects.

]]> By: zeleneye http://blogs.euobserver.com/waterfield/2009/03/23/the-cowardly-eu/comment-page-1/#comment-89 zeleneye Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:39:21 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/waterfield/?p=31#comment-89 More bile from Bruno. Poor old Bruno, I am really starting to feel sorry for you. You must be really miserable. Your blogs here and elsewhere are dull, clichéd and repetitive. Just because you write for a rag like the telegraph doesn't mean you have to become as jingoistic as all its readers. You used to be such a nice young boy. More bile from Bruno. Poor old Bruno, I am really starting to feel sorry for you. You must be really miserable. Your blogs here and elsewhere are dull, clichéd and repetitive. Just because you write for a rag like the telegraph doesn’t mean you have to become as jingoistic as all its readers. You used to be such a nice young boy.

]]> By: Patrick http://blogs.euobserver.com/waterfield/2009/03/23/the-cowardly-eu/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Patrick Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:29:54 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/waterfield/?p=31#comment-88 Funny how the same people who bang on about the EU taking too much power and being so useless are always the first to complain when it doesn't act. Damned if it does, damned if it doesn't? This is all the more interesting as it comes from a journalist writing for a paper published in a country known more for whinging about national sovereignty than the future direction of the EU, and one of the two countries most responsible for the current crisis. Perhaps if this country would get off its proverbial glutus maximus and put some sensible propositions (other than spending invisible money) on the table, then perhaps we could do more than just wait for a franco-german initiative? Funny how the same people who bang on about the EU taking too much power and being so useless are always the first to complain when it doesn’t act. Damned if it does, damned if it doesn’t?

This is all the more interesting as it comes from a journalist writing for a paper published in a country known more for whinging about national sovereignty than the future direction of the EU, and one of the two countries most responsible for the current crisis. Perhaps if this country would get off its proverbial glutus maximus and put some sensible propositions (other than spending invisible money) on the table, then perhaps we could do more than just wait for a franco-german initiative?

]]> By: Eurostar http://blogs.euobserver.com/waterfield/2009/03/23/the-cowardly-eu/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Eurostar Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:34:40 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/waterfield/?p=31#comment-87 Why would you call the EU " cowardly " if mainly Sarkozy rejected the idea of such a meeting? Why organize such a meeting anyway if it is just show with zero impact anyway? A big show will only lead to dissapointment cause the citizens ask for serious answers and solutions. Something the Prague meeting would not have been able to deliver. Why would you call the EU ” cowardly ” if mainly Sarkozy rejected the idea of such a meeting? Why organize such a meeting anyway if it is just show with zero impact anyway? A big show will only lead to dissapointment cause the citizens ask for serious answers and solutions. Something the Prague meeting would not have been able to deliver.

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