Juncker is galling for Britain, but life-threatening for France and Italy - Telegraph
Reading William Hague's biography of Pitt the Younger on holiday last week, I was struck by European views of Britain in the 1780s after it lost American. Austria's Joseph II issued a typical verdict, supposing the country to have "fallen entirely and forever, descended to the status of a second-rank power, like Sweden or Denmark." It would not be long before Vienna was begging for subsidies, and the hard-drinking Pitt was the arbiter of Europe. Such was the force of compound economic growth.
Mr Hague is now in the odd position of acting out the diplomatic roles he describes so well in his book. Perhaps he could tell us what Pitt would have done about Mr Juncker.
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Lets go our own way - and stick it to the Frogs and the Latins.
Reading William Hague's biography of Pitt the Younger on holiday last week, I was struck by European views of Britain in the 1780s after it lost American. Austria's Joseph II issued a typical verdict, supposing the country to have "fallen entirely and forever, descended to the status of a second-rank power, like Sweden or Denmark." It would not be long before Vienna was begging for subsidies, and the hard-drinking Pitt was the arbiter of Europe. Such was the force of compound economic growth.
Mr Hague is now in the odd position of acting out the diplomatic roles he describes so well in his book. Perhaps he could tell us what Pitt would have done about Mr Juncker.
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Lets go our own way - and stick it to the Frogs and the Latins.
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