BY Daniel Hannan

Those Europhiles who cling, despite all the evidence, to the whole people-who-don't-like-the-EU-racket-are-secret-xenophobes shtick should meet Derk Jan Eppink MEP.  Cerebral, courteous and cosmopolitan, Eppink is a brilliant linguist even by Dutch standards. He is married to a Russian, represents a Belgian constituency and was living in New York until he was elected. His last big job was at the European Commission, where he worked with Frits Bolkestein to try to crowbar free market principles into the EU's competition policy. Eppink won't even call himself a Euro-sceptic, preferring the term "Euro-realist".