The injunction by European Parliament President David Sassoli at the January plenary session to remove the small flags that we had become accustomed to seeing on desks in the Eurosceptic ranks continues to cause controversy.
The bitter pill will clearly not go down easy with the Identity and Democracy (ID) group. Among its French members of the Rassemblement National, the decision is described as “arbitrary”, “brutal” and even “almost totalitarian”. And they have no intention of...