Airstrip One

The Axis Powers strengthened - 24th November 2002, 20.04

France and Germany announced a range of shared goals in their prospective submissions to the European Convention: a European Armaments Agency, a European defence policy and greater EU powers in internal and external security. To demonstrate the seriousness with which they now view the Convention, both foreign ministers, Dominique de Villepin and Joschka Fischer, have joined the body.

In this beneficial development, Britain is now marginalised and Blair's strategy of placing us at 'the heart of Europe' has proved to be an appalling judgement of error from a naive idiot.