ONE would think that Federalist and European integrationist Lib Dem MEP Chris Davies would have enough to worry about concerning the many failures of the European Union in 2003 instead of challenging the government over individuals found and detained fighting against our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq (LET, January 17).

Even Jacques Delors, former head of the EU Commission, said that the EU was in a "state of latent crisis" and that "the UK was right not to join the flawed Euro."

Mr Davies's silence on the Swedish people's rejection of the Euro has been deafening. Not a thing to say about the failed EU summit on the EU Constitution. No comment either about the collapse of the Euro's Growth and Stability pact, which allows Germany and France to break the cardinal rules governing the single currency.

It must have slipped his mind to tell his North West constituents about the 10 mighty European Agencies designed to take over a vast tranche of power from national governments this year without a treaty even being signed Crocodile tears regarding detainees in Guantanamo Bay will not wash when he supports the European Arrest Warrant.

VAL COWELL, UK Independence Party, Poulton-le-Fylde.