Asking the wrong question  Amid all the debate over whether to
hold a referendum on the reform treaty there has been too little
discussion of our real vision for Europe.   • Jump to comments
()  The current debate about whether there should be a
referendum on the proposed EU reform treaty isn't really about
the precise arguments for or against it at all. Rather it's
about people's different conceptions of what the EU is about or
what it's for.  If you're a Eurosceptic who thinks the EU should
be a loose trading relationship with little or no political
super-structure, you'll support a referendum in the expectation
that it will be lost, which might then open the way to leaving
the EU and achieving the neoconservative goal of closer
alignment with the US.  There's been far too little debate about
our real vision for Europe - though that's where the heart of
the referendum question lies - no doubt because it would so
quickly descend into acrimony. But it still needs to be faced up
to. Most Eurosceptics don't wan