Anther snippet from Alastair Campbell’s Diaries which, despite being partial in every sense of the word, are packed with crack for political junkies:
Saturday December 15th 2001: TB [Blair] told me from the [EU] summit that Berlusconi was arguing that the food agency should go to Parma because of the cuisine there. TB said he really did seem to believe that it was a food agency, like a kind of glorified restaurant. The favourite was in Finland and Chirac had asked TB ‘Why do we want to send the food agency to a country that only eats reindeer?’ TB said somehow Europe seems to work, but if we are being frank, a lot of it is haggling, deals and people missing the point.
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