EU detractors slam Nobel Peace Prize decision
13 Oct 2012 7:29 AM IST
While some Europeans swelled with pride after the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize, howls of derision erupted from the continent’s large band of skeptics.
To many in the 27-nation bloc, the EU is an unwieldy and unloved agglomeration overseen by a top-heavy bureaucracy devoted to creating arcane regulations about everything from cheese to fishing quotas.
Set up with noble goals after the devastation of World War II, the EU now appears to critics as impotent amid a debt crisis that has threatened the euro currency and plunged several members into economic turmoil.
The vocal anti-EU politicians known as euroskeptics burst into a chorus of disdain on Friday. ‘First Al Gore, then Obama, now this. Parody is redundant,’ tweeted Daniel Hannan, a euroskeptic European lawmaker from British’s conservative Party.
To many in the 27-nation bloc, the EU is an unwieldy and unloved agglomeration overseen by a top-heavy bureaucracy devoted to creating arcane regulations about everything from cheese to fishing quotas.
Set up with noble goals after the devastation of World War II, the EU now appears to critics as impotent amid a debt crisis that has threatened the euro currency and plunged several members into economic turmoil.
The vocal anti-EU politicians known as euroskeptics burst into a chorus of disdain on Friday. ‘First Al Gore, then Obama, now this. Parody is redundant,’ tweeted Daniel Hannan, a euroskeptic European lawmaker from British’s conservative Party.
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