EU president admits officials drawing up a ‘utopia’ of united Europe have ‘failed to notice’ it’s not what ‘ordinary people’ want...

Daily Mail
June 1, 2016

Eurocrats ‘obsessed’ with the goal of a European superstate forget the people of Europe are not interested in the idea, the EU Council president admitted today.

Donald Tusk said the EU had ‘failed to notice’ the goals of its officials differed widely from the ambitions of the people in different member states.

Mr Tusk’s intervention came hours before Chris Grayling, a leading Vote Leave campaigner and cabinet minister, warned the ‘special status’ claimed by David Cameron for Britain in the EU would not protect the country from further integration.

Mr Grayling said the Lisbon Treaty, signed by Gordon Brown, was worded so loosely it was open to interpretation and expansion by officials and European judges.

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