It has made clear it wants to speed up moves towards a federal Europe, with more of the features of a continental super-state.
In Connecticut, power prices have soared over the past decade and are currently the highest for any state in the continental United States.
Whereas most continental power providers, often state-backed, tied in supplies through long-term contracts (notably with Russia), British firms happily tapped the North Sea and planned to top up as necessary on the open market.
In continental Europe, especially, the state has always been intrusive, but, reassuringly, often inefficient.
Tickets to Bruce Springsteen's upcoming string of concerts -- this time at Continental Airlines Arena in his home state -- went on sale over the weekend.
But BA's Continental rivals are no longer the bloated, state-owned giants, they used to be.
McClendon, chief executive of Chesapeake Energy, and Hamm, who controls Continental Resources, are now embroiled in a state lawsuit filed in Garfield County, Okla. over a land deal gone bad.
Thirty years after Thatcherism began to work its cruel magic in Britain (see article), continental Europe still tends to favour a larger state, higher taxes, heavier regulation of product and labour markets and a more generous social safety-net than freer-market sorts like the Iron Lady would tolerate.
The fact is that many British people continue to make assumptions about the duties of the state towards its citizens which are closer to the social democratic ideas of continental Europe than to the more individualist, anti-statist traditions of America.
But, where public provision of social services is the norm, as in most of continental Europe, governments have been more ambivalent, seeing private provision as a sign of state failure.
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