Breaking treaty

So, European Union leaders are pressing ahead with their plan to lend billions of euros to near-bankrupt Greece, even though this would break the EU treaties (your report, 26 April.

During the debates on the Maastricht Treaty, we were repeatedly told that it could never lead to EU member states bailing each other out, and the same "no bailout" clauses that were inserted into Maastricht to prevent that happening are still there in the present treaties, carried over as Articles 123 - 125 TFEU.

Characteristically, British politicians have remained silent about this illegal EU proposal, apart from Chancellor Alistair Darling – and his reaction was not to condemn it, but to urge that it should be put into effect as quickly as possible.

The EU sates on its website: "The European Union is based on the rule of law. This means that everything that it does is derived from treaties, which are agreed on voluntarily and democratically by all member states."

How can this be so when EU governments are now colluding in a flagrant breach of those treaties?

DR D R COOPER

Belmont Park Avenue

Maidenhead, Berkshire