Disgraceful France Should Be Out of EU

At last. Those are the only two words that seem appropriate now that EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding has finally come out with a direct attack on the French government's deportations of Roma people. At last she is "appalled"; at last she is threatening the Sarkozy regime with legal action. One wonders where she has been for the last 18 months as hundreds of men, women and children have been rounded up by French police, with no time to gather their possessions, publicly branded as criminals and sent back to Romania and Bulgaria. Let's just remind ourselves: these are EU citizens, being deported from one member state to another because of their ethnicity. Imagine the outcry if Sarkozy started deporting people who happened to be Jewish or black. Would it have taken 18 months for the EU to react?