For three days four EU commissioners cooked to their heart’s delight under the approving eye of renowned chefs. The event was organised to highlight European cultural diversity.

It’s worth noting, of course, that the “cultural diversity” displayed at such events is of a distinctly Potemkin variety, roughly analagous to the old Soviet custom of regularly rolling out a troupe of folk dancers from some crushed nation or other whenever they wanted to reassure the easily duped that the USSR was indeed a happy brotherhood of free peoples.

British taxpayers are helping to fund EU initiatives on basket-weaving, folk dancing, slapstick acting workshops and even a scheme to promote afternoon siestas.

Van Rompuy and the secret Belgian plot to rule Britain: ”Make no mistake, the EU is an empire with global ambitions. In his acceptance speech, President Van Rompuy extolled ‘global governance’. Legions of bureaucrats will rule the British from Brussels, the Belgian capital. Being proud of your Britishness will be criminalised, just as Brussels has always punished Flemings who put Flanders first.”