Fr Patrick Daly (“Two cheers for Europe”, 10 May) gives an extraordinarily optimistic view of the EU, which of course he would as general secretary of the EU’s bishops’ conferences. If the union has been “successful”, why do we have unemployment levels in the eurozone at a near record high of 11.8 per cent with over 18 million unemployed and in Spain and Greece youth unemployment of over 60 per cent? Why do we have debts at levels which can never be repaid? Why have the accounts not been signed off for nearly 20 years? Why have billions of regional aid just disappeared in places like southern Italy? The EU parliament is a sham to disguise the democratic deficit since it forms neither the primary legislature nor the executive. Subsidiarity is a myth sinc