T he blame game continues in Europe over who’s responsible for the high level split over a new EU fiscal agreement. The British Prime Minister, who slapped a firm “No” on the deal, said it lacked sufficient financial safeguards for the UK.
But European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, says Britain itself made compromise impossible by making demands that threatened the entire single market. Historian and author, Neil Faulkner, thinks that there was no agreement possible that would have pleased the British government just because there’s no such thing as Britain.