EU justice commisioner Frano Frattini
Gerard Cerles/AFP/Getty ImagesHardline Eurosceptics, who spot a conspiracy around every dreary corridor in Brussels, have been made to look ridiculous today.
A plan by the European commission to strip EU member states of their veto over justice and home affairs - which had the sceptics fulminating - crashed and burned today when it was debated by national ministers at a meeting in Finland.
Anybody with an ounce of understanding of how the EU does it business knew that the proposal, which was the brainchild of the European commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, would not fly in the current climate.
A whole range of countries were opposed for many different reasons, guaranteeing that the hapless Mr Barroso had set himself up for another fall.
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