BABY SPIES AND BEAUJOLAIS

The European Commission fears that its confidential documents are increasingly at risk from spies "We are not only pointing the finger at journalists. It could be the pretty trainee with the long legs and the blonde hair," commission spokeswoman Valerie Rampi said on Wednesday (11 February).

UK (Tory) MEP Brigadier General Geoffrey Van Orden formerly of the intelligence Corps pointed out that the EU is institutionally incapable of keeping a secret. 'Vin Ordinaire' as he is known to his friends when they want to make his face twitch, is a typical Tory of the Janus Club. Two faced like the Roman New Year God, a sceptic to his constituents, but a Europhile in Brussels. It is unusual of him to criticise the Commission but then he is only stating the obvious.

Nevertheless a big bold beaujolais for the brigadier.

I myself have heard that the Euro Commission and Parliament are so wide open that Brussels is where the World's baby spies are trained. They can hang around in cafe's around the Commission picking up juicy gossip before moving on to a job infiltrating the Commission as a Eurocrats assistant then moving up to being a cleaner - It would take more humility to be a cleaner - a commodity Eurocrats are short of.. Presumably the baby spies have to take on NATO to graduate.