Subsidiarity man

Richard

– 20/09/2009Posted in: Blog, Europe, UK

I was delighted to find in an old collection of papers this cartoon: it appeared in The Independent some time in 1991, I think, when the term “subsidiarity” first made its way into the debate about the European treaties. The awkward British problem with the idea is summed up, isn’t it.

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