When the European Parliament stops being polite
As RFE’s Luke Allnut notes, "It’s always been one of the European Parliament’s most delicious ironies that many of its members are dyed-in-the-wool Euroskeptics. The above rant Nigel Farage of the anti-EU United Kingdom Independence Party, in which he calls EU President Herman Von Rompuy a "wet rag" and a "quiet assassin of European democracy" ...
As RFE's Luke Allnut notes, "It's always been one of the European Parliament's most delicious ironies that many of its members are dyed-in-the-wool Euroskeptics.
As RFE’s Luke Allnut notes, "It’s always been one of the European Parliament’s most delicious ironies that many of its members are dyed-in-the-wool Euroskeptics.
The above rant Nigel Farage of the anti-EU United Kingdom Independence Party, in which he calls EU President Herman Von Rompuy a "wet rag" and a "quiet assassin of European democracy" to his face as well as referring to Belgium as a non-country — is a perfect example.
Is it time to add the EU body to the list of the world’s unruliest parliaments?
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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