Well it's taken France a long time to get round to feeling like I've been made to feel by the EEC for a long time, and that's insignificant. For so long France and Germany ruled the roost in this cosy little multi national beaureacracy, and made the rules which our civil servants gold plated, while theirs ignored them. Can you see us getting off with continueing a ban on French beef, or burning lorries loaded with German Bratwurst? Of course not, but they seem to pull strokes like that with impunity. Now that the EEC has expanded to 25 countries France too is beginning to feel insignificant, and they don't like it. Why can't we have common market without all the top heavy rules and regs? Why is it that our steel works were closed down because there was enough steel being produced in the EEC but farmers are allowed to grow whatever they want to attract the biggest subsidies and thus produce wine lakes, and sugar beet mountains. Our fishing fleets are being decimated, while othe market members receive subsidies to build boats which they then send into UK waters to catch fish which are shipped back to their home countries with very little checking for quotas or size limits here and none at all at home. The whole thing is over regulated under policed and open to abuse and fiddling, it's a great idea badly executed.
Giok