I’m just a “phobe”. Looks like I got under her skin, just like a USSR apparatchik offended at a dissident criticizing the mothership…
Here’s a totally expected, “looking-down-the-nose” response by a typical EU elitist, Brigid Laffan. Check out her resumé, you can’t get any more elitist than that. She represents the “mastermind & genius” cult of statists who believe that they alone hold the keys to society’s success, not the broad expanse of the civil society. Nope, the cabal of the neo-aristocracy, comprised of academics and politicians and crony business people are the anointed ones. All hail.
NOTE: Stop conflating the EU with Europe.