The benefits of membership may seem self-evident, but that may not be enough to sustain near-universal Europhilia for ever.
ECONOMIST: Ireland
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One side characterises Mr Brown as the sturdy guardian of Britain's economic interest, protecting the nation from Mr Blair's besotted Europhilia.
ECONOMIST: Tony Blair and Gordon Brown can't go on like this
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His Europhilia probably has limited appeal in a place whose residents, according to local legend, once hanged a shipwrecked monkey as a Napoleonic spy.