Email to the Committee Specialist from
Sir John Weston, former UK Permanent Representative on the North
Atlantic Council and UK Permanent Representative to the UN
I do have a point of view, which is that the
whole slide toward the greater pooling of national powers, in
an EU which is already too big for its own good, continues to
be carried out by a bureaucratic sleight of hand on the part of
EU officials in Brussels and in national foreign ministries, one
which—so far as the UK is concerned—enjoys no mandate
at all from the British people. In the FCO, from my earlier experience
as Political Director, I would say EU policy was in effect made
by cabal; and if you had "unsound" views or awkward
practical objections, you were not part of it. But then you have
MPs on your Committee (I hope and pray) who must be well aware
of all that already.
John Weston
8 November 2007
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