Posted on 02/16/2006 2:27:02 PM PST by Anne_Conn
Last week Chresten Anderson wrote a piece on this website about the tiny island of Åland (actually a group of islands, as one of our readers pointed out) that is rebelling against the European moloch in Brussels. The Daily Telegraph sent its Brussels correspondent David Rennie to Mariehamn, Ålands capital.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
"Give me snus or give me death!"
Bravo to the Alanders! The very hypocritical European Union gives regular lip-service to subsidiarity (the concept that decisions should be made at the lowest practical level) while aggressively promoting a centralized and intrusive bureaucracy.
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