EU Interior Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told MEPs yesterday that internal French government documents detailing the way that Roma camps should be dismantled are "extremely worrying" and seem to contravene EU law against collective expulsion.
French EU Affairs Secretary Pierre Lellouche replied that it was not up to the Commission to decide if his country was abiding by the EU treaties or not. "France is a great sovereign state," he said. "We are not at school. I have no intention of being treated, on behalf of France, like a schoolboy".
Lellouche's final flourish should be posted in huge letters at the gates of parliament and King Charles Street to remind our emasculated politicians and lick-spittle diplomats where their duty lies:
"The French people are the guardians of the EU treaties because they ratified them".
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