June 29, 2005
Libya's New Bargain
The Libyans have successfully extorted more money out of the Europeans, this time for border control. Either pay us to guard our borders or be swamped by millions of African Muslims, Khaddafi said. They paid. Also, see Libya complaints about illegal immigration. Priceless. Here is a fascinating article on Brussels Journal, edited by my friend Paul Belien. He is a former contributor to the Wall Street Journal Europe, a free-market activist who started the Centre for the New Europe, and has just published a new book on the EU. It argues that the European Union—with its myriad official languages, socialist-minded regulators and desire to build an artificial state that transcends traditional borders—is simply an attempt to create Belgium on a continental scale. As such, the EU will face all of the problems now faced by Belgium. Buy it now.
Posted by Richard Miniter at 11:50 AM