We live in a time of reassessment and reappraisal of the European project; the defeat of ratification of the EU Constitution in both France and the Netherlands has left the bureaucracy in Brussels dazed and confused. Worse, the Brussels establishment is now suffering from cognitive dissonance, as their continued call for ratification votes in the countries that have not yet voted on it shows.People searching for an explanation as to why the EU behaves as it does, namely, in such a bureaucratic, statist and anti-democratic fashion, will find Paul Belien’s new book "A Throne in Brussels: Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs and...