The term Euroskeptic (or Eurosceptic) has been used misleadingly to lend adversaries of European integration an aura of intellectual respectability.
Here are a few suggestions for a new and more accurate political EU vocabulary in a UK context, ahead of the European elections.
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Constructive
Liberals
Stronger Together Poorer Apart
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Euroskeptic
Labour Party
Behind the slipstream of Europe, paring down the Lisbon Treaty and approving it with four opt-outs.
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Anti-European
Libertas
Campaigns to take the European Union back to the Treaty of Nice and to put an end to free movement.
Conservative Party
Wants to wreck the Lisbon Treaty, leave the mainstream EPP-ED parliamentary group and commence integration in reverse. The ones who love French wine and cheese and holidays on the Riviera may object to being called anti-Europeans, which however refers to their political views.
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Eurotoxic
UKIP and BNP want Britain to exit.
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Reasoned suggestions are welcome.
Ralf Grahn
Friday 22 May 2009
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