Europe is tiresome right now. Bicker, bicker, bicker. Surely it’s all just a smokescreen to distract everyone - and particularly those who haven’t yet voted on the constitution - to stop them dwelling on the success of the ‘no’ campaign.

The smokescreen is, of course, the French row over whether Britain should keep what it called the Cheque Britannique - the British cheque, the

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2. Eurotrash
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3. Petrol prejudice
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