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Another snippet to delight all UK taxpayers..

If it was a mystery why the new EU member states last weekend all fell so meekly into line on the new constitution - of which several, notably Poland, had earlier been highly critical - one explanation may have been Wednesday's little-noticed announcement that, over the next two years, Brussels is to give them a staggering £16 billion in extra subsidies (more than £1 billion of this from UK taxpayers). Half of this goes to Poland, a good chunk of it to rebuild the Polish fishing fleet which will soon enjoy "equal access" to UK fishing waters.

from today's papers.