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Ruffled feathers
J. Borg’s feeble attempt to torpedo Johnathan Chard Deeley’s case (February 19, online comments) is truly pathetic.
First, it was Ursula Von der Leyen who made the comparison that, “alone, a country can be a speedboat while the EU is more like a tanker”, not Deeley.
Second, the comparison can be made, for (to quote Matthew) “By their fruits ye shall know them” and, in the case of the vaccine, the EU “fruit” has been somewhat limited.
Third, the EU is busy posing as a single country and acquiring all the associated trappings (army, anthem, flag, embassies, ambassadors, EU-wide legislation, trade deals, etc), so inviting comparison, yet Borg’s feathers are severely ruffled when its shortcomings are pointed out, whether by Deeley or by Von der Leyen.
Speedboat vs tanker
In his article ‘The EU’s vaccine debacle’ (February 15), John Cassar White claims that “UK pro-Brexit politicians will use the vaccine failure to prove how right they were to leave the EU”. It might be premature to believe that Ursula Von der Leyen, the EU Commission president, has undergone a Damascene conversion to the concept of Brexit, however, on February 4, she declared that “alone, a country can be a speedboat while the EU is more like a tanker”.
I rest my case.
A trip down memory lane
The recent announcement of the death of the former president of Argentina, Carlos Menem, kindled memories of a close encounter I had with him in 1996 when Menem was on an official visit in Morocco.