As they sink into the mire, MEPs gaze at the stars
Updated: 2012-02-11 14:36:53
, Sunday 12 February 2012 Blog Feed All feeds Website of the Telegraph Media Group with breaking news , sport , business , latest UK and world news . Content from the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and video from Telegraph . TV Home News Sport Finance Comment Blogs Culture Travel Lifestyle Fashion Tech Dating Offers Jobs UK World Politics Obituaries Education Earth Science Defence Health News Royal Family Celebrities Weird News Blogs Home News Politics Daniel Hannan Daniel Hannan Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist , and has been Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999. He speaks French and Spanish and loves Europe , but believes that the European Union is making its constituent nations poorer , less democratic and less . free As they sink into the mire ,
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