Sir, – Wolfgang Münchau (“Draghi running out of legal ways to fix the euro”, Business Opinion, August 18th) misses the point that the EU and the euro were not set up for the benefit of the citizens – the decent taxpaying workers – of Europe any more than Cern, the international space station or quangos. All those organisations, and many others, exist solely for the good of the many thousands of bureaucrats who muddle round inside them without any clear targets, no written statement as to how their efforts will benefit the people who pay their salaries, nor any accountability for getting everything wrong. Discussing such people, let alone trying to improve their performance, is as pointless as sitting in a lukewarm bath waiting for it to get hot again. – Yours, etc,
RD BANTON,
Kevin Street,
Tinahely,
Co Wicklow.