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II According to the director general of the EC transport directorate: "The UK attitude to transport policy is negative ... if you're in a club you should play the game to win." Oh really? Surely what he meant to say was if you're in a club you should all be playing the same game.
Someone ought to explain that to the Germans who are hellbent on charging £3,500 to foreign hauliers who want to use their roads. And they say the British are poor Europeans!
To be honest, many of us probably are. But in mitigation our transport policy is no worse than that of many other countries within the EC. The sooner nonelected Eurocrats in Brussels realise that the better.
Even convinced Europhiles will have to accept that whoever chairs the European Council of Transport Ministers is likely to want to get a little something for the home team past the post.
We may not be the most cornmited Europeans, but that's probably because we have a more pragmatic view of life post1993 and what it really offers British hauliers.
But never mind who is or isn't for Europe: the single market is only weeks away. It's time for everyone to shut up and play ball.