We often wonder, in Brussels and elsewhere, why the EU is not more popular with the public. There is no lack of wise explanations: lack of transparency, insufficient democracy, lack of political ambition…But sometimes the explanation is more simple: it rests in the false or twisted way, and simply incomplete manner in which European reality is put across to the public. Examples.
Eurocrats and restaurants. The French Finance Minister asked for VAT rates in restaurants to be brought down...