Europe's true colours...

Imagine you're a well-bred and formerly prosperous fellow, in more recent decades sadly fallen on hard times. Finally things start looking up, and the Gravy Train Club even accepts your application to join, and puts you in charge for a bit.

To make a good impression, you commission some nice pictures of the other members - only to discover that the charming artist you paid quite a lot of money to has made your fellow Gravy Trainers look like the Addams Family.

Sadly, this is what the Czech Republic seems to have done this week to its fellow EU members. Embarrassing highlights; Germany with a motorway-Swastika, Bulgaria as a toilet, and France on strike.

If ever there was an international organisation with a PR problem, it's the EU. And this really isn't going to help.

Still, I'd be curious to see what this artist chappie made of the Middle East, and how big the riots would be afterwards.