Barroso claims EU an Empire

The Portuguese President of the EU Commission now follows up the Portuguese President of the EU's claim that the 'mandate' cannot be changed by any single nation state by stating the end result is an 'Empire' . Read the EU Observer report linked here. New PM the Scottish Gordon Brown (who will unveil a new programme today mainly on issues not affecting his constituents) is presently being interviewed on the BBC Today programme, naturally enough was not be quizzed on any of these crucial EU matters. The Times even manages some vaguely EU sceptic reporting on this surprising and perhaps fortuitous admission, read it here.