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THE EU’S catastrophic failure over its vaccine rollout will push more nations to leave the ailing bloc and trigger a fresh wave Euroscepticism, experts have said. France and Germany face another lockdown after they played politics and attempted to shun the Oxford AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine as the killer virus looks set to surge again across Europe... ...Robert Oulds, director of think tank The Bruges Group, told The Sun Online the vaccine crisis could be the start of the “unraveling” of the EU. ... ...EU vaccine figures are vastly behind Britain - with the UK having 27 per cent of citizens...

(I suspect most Freepers will be happy to see photos of Lady Thatcher still being able to enjoy the company of old colleagues and young admirers. This is from a British blog by the historian and blogger Helen Szamuley. The Bruges Group is a think-tank that has taken its name from Margaret Thatcher's famous Bruges speech in September 1988, in which she remarked that, "We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level". /SB) Well, OK, these pictures are not the greatest, mobiles being fairly useful as...

As the ridiculous back-room negotiations about the new Commission go on and the members of the European Parliament display their petulance, the Bruges Group welcomes the display of true democracy and constitutionalism of the United States. It is worth noting that while turn-out for elections across the European Union has been going down as true power has moved to the unelected and unaccountable Brussels machinery, the 2004 elections in the United States saw the highest turn-out for many decades. It is clear that the American people cherish their democratic institutions and, feeling that they are under attack from terrorists and...