HuffingtonPost.uk, January 30, 2014 (shorter version), Strade, January 30, 2014
Among the numerous invisible elephants that haunt the seats of government of 27 of the 28 EU member-States is the particularly ghostly issue of the British question. How is it possible that a subject as important as the place and the role of the United Kingdom in the EU is being blatantly avoided? The situation, however, is very real. Twenty-seven States have become hostage to one man, David Cameron, who is himself the hostage of another – Nigel Farage, the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP).