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Nigel Farage summoned for tirade against Van Rompuy

Mr Farage drew jeers on Wednesday when he told the chamber Mr Van Rompuy had "the charisma of a damp rag". He also said Mr Van Rompuy had the appearance of a "low-grade bank clerk". "Who are you? I'd never heard of you, nobody in Europe had ever heard of you," Mr Farage said. "You seem to have a loathing for the very concept of the existence of nation states," he continued, adding: "Perhaps that's because you come from Belgium, which is pretty much a non-country." Mr Van Rompuy was "competent and capable", adding that this made him "dangerous". "I have no doubt that your intention is to be the quiet assassin of European democracy and of European nation states," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8537664.stm

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