A bogus, pompous, ludicrous, overpriced job
The manner of the birth of the new European presidency tells you everything that is wrong with it. Instantly it has provoked confusion, a satirical focus on personalities and rancour between nations large and small. Everyone is talking about who the president and foreign minister of this abstract entity will be, no one about how it will actually work.
Perhaps that is because, in their hearts, people know that it can’t. The EU is not a country and, far from “gaining weight globally by speaking with one voice”, acting as if it were could imperil many of its achievements to date.… Seguir leyendo »