[Renfield]

"...Big European states, especially France, Germany and Italy, have constipated labour markets....."

Now THERE'S a phrase to remember....

[CondorFlight]

"It would have also given Brussels power over more areas of formerly domestic policy"

And taken away the rights of such places as Holland to police their own immigration (IOW, they must agree to commit
suicude as a nation, and to being turned out of their own homes, by permitting unlimited immigration
of foreigners with an alien ideology and lifestyle,
and they have no right to protest)

[ncountylee]

"....by dumping tons of.....manure"

Identical to a Chirac speech.

[An Old Marine]

Yet more proof that this EU Superpower talk is just nonsense.

If Europe ever integrates it will only be under the banner of the radical Muslim invaders that the Europeans were too lazy to defend themselves from.

[bozot]

The same people donated us similar good sounding phrases at each stages of the EU project, include the lounch of the Euro and the taking the new memebers.

Will be many more similar ones for the coming decades, for the amusement of those who wishing bad to the EU...

[TheGeezer]

Big European states, especially France, Germany and Italy, have constipated labour markets.

Now THERE'S a phrase to remember....

I copied the sentence to use in a comment, but you beat me to it right out of the gate. Your riposte was better than mine, anyway...

[thoughtomator]

Boy, I never realized just how much the Economist has degenerated into just another left-wing rag.