England Expects

When those who are elected to that far away place, the European Parliament, time rests heavily on their hands. They twiddle their fingers and try to find ways to become famous on their own parent's breakfast table.
One way to do this is to pretend that people care, another is to write articles for magazines that nobody would ever pay to read. Another is to send press releases that nobody will ever notice....

Unusual indeed

We get it, the European Parliament, read the European institutions think that Britain needs to pay them more money.
And of course this is what Martin Schulz, the German socialist president of the European Parliament thinks,
'If Cameron is prepared to give up the British rebate, then we can discuss the reduction of the EU budget'....

It seems to be a reasonable question to ask, so Stuart Agnew has done so.
When is a paper a non-paper? When is a paper a non-paper (e.g. 20120326 Non paper_OTF SI.doc)? Does the Commission understand that, in English at least, this is a linguistic absurdity? (We could perhaps call it an ‘antimoron’ if that is...