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Eurocrats are belatedly developing a healthy distaste for red tape
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The bloc is done playing nicely

The eurocratic guild at the heart of the EU is seeing its influence ebb

Brussels takes on the red-tape gusher

Even if there is plenty that could yet kill it

It has moderated, but offers little hope of growth-boosting reform

Weak governments cannot conjure the support to make crucial deals