The EU "Does a Canute"

I am more than amused to see that the EU has taken mighty umbrage at the downgrades by the ratings agencies of Greece and Portugal.

Indeed the EU is so annoyed with the ratings agencies that Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, all but declared that it was an Anglo Saxon conspiracy by all ratings agencies.

All very nice for the soundbites, maybe. However, he conveniently forgot that Fitch is in fact French.

The EU and its whinging ministers have as much chance of turning the ebbs and flows of the markets as Canute did the sea. Unless the EU understands that point, the EU experiment is doomed to fail.