YOUR editorial, “The price of progress” (Echo, Apr 13) about the economic revival said: “With the European Union volatile, and Greece teetering on the brink, fortunes could turn in an instant and nothing can be taken for granted...” This is a situation that is ignored time after time.

But the Echo’s warning overlooks the real issue: the EU is a calamity – was it ever such a good Idea?

John Young, Wolsingham