The Daily Express warns us that a new massive figure is set to take over Europe – just like the Holy Roman Emperor! And Napoleon! The UK will be scrapped!

A covert group of EU foreign ministers has drawn up plans for merging the jobs currently done by Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, and Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission.

The new bureaucrat, who would not be directly elected by voters, is set to get sweeping control over the entire EU and force member countries into ever-greater political and economic union.

Tellingly, the UK has been excluded from the confidential discussions within the shady “Berlin Group” of Europhile politicians, spearheaded by German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle. Opponents fear the plan could create a modern-day equivalent of the European emperor envisaged by Napoleon Bonaparte or a return to the Holy Roman Empire of Charlemagne that dominated Europe in the Dark Ages.

I have signed up to My Express to post a comment pointing out that the UK will have a veto on any such idea:

The article fails to point out that such a major change in roles would require a major revision of the UK Treaty system and the UK would have a veto as would many other EU states wthat for one or other reason might not like the idea.

Indeed, even if the UK government were minded to accept the proposal, the issue would have to go to a referendum under the new arrangements for sovereignty brought in by this government. And the almost 99% certainty of a UK No vote would serve to stop the plan ever getting very far.

It all might be different if a completely new structure emerges of an ‘inner core’ set of countries, but that too would need Treaty changes and a UK veto

So no real story here. Move along folks

Let’s see if my comment makes it past their ungrammatical moderating system:

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Update       Fair’s fair – duly published, a coracle bobbing in a Sea of Europhobes