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Letters to the Editor: EU may have to find a more warlike anthem than ‘Ode to Joy’

A reader says Beethoven would be bewildered that the European Commission plans to borrow €150bn to buy weapons of destruction

Letters to the Editor: EU may have to find a more warlike anthem than ‘Ode to Joy’ — Beethoven's Ode to joy was performed in Berlin on Christmas Day, 1989, to mark the recent fall of the Berlin Wall. It had been adopted as the official EU anthem in 1985. File picture: AP

Fri, 14 Mar, 2025 - 00:07

O friends, not these tones!

But let’s strike up more agreeable ones.

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