Nigel Farage fined after Herman Van Rompuy slur

By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels Published: 5:11PM GMT 02 March 2010

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Mr Farage used Herman Van Rompuy"s lass discuss to the European Parliament last week to report him as carrying the "charisma of a slightly wet broom and the coming of a low class bank clerk".

He was summoned in by EU officials to insist his comments but pronounced his usually reparation would be to bank clerks.

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Yves Leterme, Belgium"s Prime Minister, has demanded a open reparation for the "slander" and Mr Farage"s combined "insult" that Mr Van Rompuy was a "quiet assassin" antagonistic to the government of republic states since he came from the "non-country" of Belgium.

Mr Farage was called to the bureau of Jerzy Buzek, the President of the European Parliament, and told to publicly apologize to Mr Van Rompuy and Belgium "or else".

"I pronounced he had the glamour of a slightly wet broom and I plea you to find any one who would contend any opposite to that," he said, "The usually people I am going to apologize to are bank bureau the universe over. If I have annoyed them I am really contemptible indeed."

Following the meeting, Mr Farage was sensitive by Mr Buzek that he would be fined EUR3,000, to be deducted from his MEP allowances, for the comments.

Mr Buzek, a former part of of the Polish Solidarity transformation that fought opposite Communism in the 1980s, pronounced Mr Farage had "insulted the dignity" of the new EU president.

"I cannot accept this sort of behaviour," he said. "I have thus - as an countenance of the earnest of the make a difference - rescinded his right to ten days every day stipend as a member."

The ultimate situation follows an central rebuke last Nov for "violating the grace of the individual" after he described the newly allocated Mr Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton, the EU unfamiliar minister, as "political pygmies".

"The ambience in the room was flattering clear, unless I apologise, what will occur to me would be severe," pronounced Mr Farage. "I am not going to apologize if I have sparked off a discuss on critical issues such as who governs the EU and are they democratically accountable. That"s a great thing to have done."