(Neo-)Feudalism is back - I'm telling this since years.
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In a loose context, from August's favourite non-German news source

, this:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...801756,00.html
Sometimes they seem to be right when claiming that the EU's determination to bring all and everything under its control, leads too far. Beside that, blocking Britain damages the EU, and since I would like to see the EU being destroyed (and in the long run replaced with something more effective, more focussed on economic issues exclusively, and less megalomaniac and less totalitarian and no longer obsessed with regulating even the smallest details of social life and how to pick your nose in the politically correct and physically unrisky way - "Protect the children's noses at all times !"

), I pragmatically on occasion line up with the blocking Brits, depending on the individual issue. That must not be same thinking and same interest of them and me, but is pure pragmatism of mine.