Well, I’ve had a quick browse and I’m very impressed with the diplomatic fixes that went into it. Rather than try and rig the mathematics so that the four big countries can’t just block things on their own, there is an explicit line saying that the four big countries can’t just block things on their own. And the Dutch government’s problem with the budget has been sorted by offering them a rebate a la Britain. The Eurosceptics will try and market their paranoia but I like the look of it personally.
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I’m with Jung and the collective unconscious on this one. It always surprises me that these supernatural entities, when they manifest, tend not to communicate anything terribly interesting. It’s all very well to help a hack writer produce his first novel, or to tell some Bosnian Croatian kids that they should pray more, but it’s never anything useful like “stay away from the coast on 26 December”.