The American Spectator

The European superstate has suffered a setback and there are encouraging signs in France and elsewhere that the debate over the future governance of Europe is broadening beyond the narrow center-right, center-left parameters where it has largely been confined. You know something is afoot when in the pages of the prestigious left-of-center Le Monde appear the writings of formerly unheard from libertarians complaining about the centralization and regulation of the French social model and the dangers they foresee in its European-wide application.

Unfortunately, though, in Brussels they keep peddling that utopian bicycle.

(Editor’s note: Dr. Liam Fox is a Conservative member of the British Parliament, representing the constituency of Woodspring. He was incorrectly identified as a member of the European Parliament in the original text of this article.)