I am not surprised to read that Britons are becoming rather indifferent to the upcoming European elections (“Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” May 30, 2009). In fact, an ever-larger number of Britons is edging toward supporting complete withdrawal from the European Union. Although I agree with you that there are still some reasons for Britain to stay within the Union, for it remains a formidable market for goods and services, I am quite surprised by one of the reasons that you dish out with some conviction: its “growing geopolitical presence.” The only sense in which its presence may be said to be growing is that the Union embraces an ever-larger number of countries, albeit increasingly irrelevant ones. In every other sense it has become nothing but an American protectorate. Only as such it has managed to save itself from growing geopolitical absence.