PoliticsEU: UK Tories: France says Conserv leader Cameron "autistic," some EastGermans pine for old days of Communism

Pierre Lellouche, considered pro-Brit in Sarkozy-era cabinet (France), blasts UK's Tory leader, David Cameron, "France: autistic Tories have castrated UK in Europe" (by Nicolas Watt, Patrick Wintour, and Allegra Stratton, Guardian, Nov4,2k4). The piece reports the furious response of European leaders to yesterday's letter of Cameron to the President of the EU, acknowledging the very recent full adoption of the EU's Lisbon Treaty. And therefore the appropriate but reluctant dropping of Cameron's previously proposed referendum for lessened UK involvement with Europe, altogther. Cameron, then -- in his mentioned letter to CzechRep's Klaus (presently head of European Parliament) -- went on to build a new moat, closer to the castle, so to speak, that woud set impregnable barriers, thus containing European sway over Britain.

On the man initiating all these wordy reverberations, see: David Cameron, for a profile and a survey of recent event's involving this newmaker.

Meanwhile, Germany is undergoing a longterm reappraisal of the "split over the past" that divides the former West Germany from its soulmate the former East Germany which was Communist-dominated for some decades -- until precisely the fall of the Berlin Wall. This page in Washington Post, "In unified Germany, split over the past" carries a photo gallery feature "Tearing down the Wall in 1989."

Recall the USA's President, Ronald Reagan's appeal, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall." And the wall came tumblin down.

Apparently some regions and movements in Europe are feeling claustrophobic just now, around the time of the closing of the mechanisms that allowed meandering from the Eurofold, closing down around the Treaty of Lisbon which had been held in abeyance for a number of years, until Klaus affixed his signature the other day, Cameron wrote his letter accepting the basis for his promised UK referendum on European relations, shoud he be elected Britain, UK, England's new Prime Minister.

-- Politicarp