Another EU summit meeting

The press is full of speculation about both the UK unemployment figures due in less than an hour and this weeks EU meeting of National Leaders. The latter should be guided by the former. Talk (see the Irish Times here) is of the possibility of EU member states being able to pay the Third World for their carbon offsets - once more glaring evidence that they have yet to realise the depth of their economic plight. To be classed as even remotely realistic or slightly a success the EU should suspend its parliament for the remainder of this session and cancel MEP salaries and expenses or if that is contractually impossible then it MUST cancel next June's parliamentary elections should be cancelled so the useless body can never again meet and waste billions more of Europe's dwindling wealth. The Lisbon Treaty should be officially and once and for all abandoned and the remaining time spent considering realistic means to ease the coming economic hurricane.