When this wretched century is done – and good riddance to it, say I – one Irish Times-headline will be remembered as fondly as the Skibbereen Eagle’s immortal warning about the Tsar of all the Russias: World leaders from across Europe are meeting for the European Political Community summit today…..
There are as many “world leaders” in modern Europe as there are pig-farmers feeding the meat-markets of Kabul. The very notion of a “world leader” emerging from the brainless swamps that are Europe’s welfare states is as ridiculous as expecting a Miss World to emerge from a Knock lap-dancing club. Such dreamy, solipsistic nonsense is the key to almost every single EU project, such as the continent-wide economy that depends on undersea cables that it cannot protect. Or energy policies that implicitly mean that the EU subsidises Russia’s war against Ukraine while funding the latter’s defence against the missiles that we are paying for.