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January 19, 2003
Sunday
 
 
"European affairs" indeed.
Natalie Solent (Essex)  European affairs
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I don't care how hungover you are. Get thee hence to the newsagents and buy, yes buy, a paper copy of the Mail On Sunday today. They have a story about some TV chick the German Chancellor is shagging. You care not about the paramours of foreign potentates? Buy it anyway. The point is that it's a test case about whether British courts are supreme or whether the EU can over-rule them. Apparently Lover-boy Gerhart has got an injunction to suppress the story in Germany and is claiming that under EU law that means he can suppress it here too.

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Nothing like deja vu all over again. Hilu kicked him out for shagging Doris on the sly. He later claimed she was a vegetarian and would not cook his schnitzel. I wonder what the story will be this time? On the other hand, maybe Doris will "stand by her man" ala Hillary.


Posted by Cracker Barrel Philosopher at January 19, 2003 02:14 PM

Amazing. I shall try to obtain that newspaper. Could this incident be what finally focusses the minds of pro-Europeans working on Fleet Street?

The PR mirage that the European Union is only about Italian opera, German engineering and French cuisine seems to be taken quite seriously by a lot of Londoners who consider themselves educated and cosmopolitan - and who have a role forming opinions elsewhere in Britain. I wonder if this will be a learning experience for the euro-keenies?


Posted by Mark G at January 19, 2003 02:14 PM

Ooops - forgot the disclaimer. You can't read this if you are in Germany and maybe the EU. You have been warned.


Posted by Cracker Barrel Philosopher at January 19, 2003 02:16 PM

I see the BBC is reporting on the story, in this case, taking a position of total neutrality, how rare; they should try it more often, after all, that way they might once again become a REAL news organization, as opposed to the 'Official Organ of State Propaganda'.


Posted by Richard at January 19, 2003 02:53 PM

The Mail on Sunday didn't expect the German inquisition.


Posted by Ralf Goergens at January 19, 2003 03:28 PM

Poor fellow. He probably hasn't heard of 'blogs yet. It's not so great to be king anymore.


Posted by Dale Amon at January 19, 2003 04:24 PM

I love when Brits speak British.


Posted by blabla at January 20, 2003 03:09 AM