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From: dvh@vhvhvhvh.com
"aracari" wrote in message
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> That is roughly my view of the Council of Ministers, of which the
> new unelected President will be chairman of.
Expect howls of protest telling you that it's actually the European Council
he'll be president of.
The issue here is that the EU is structured in such a way that it can't be
understood except by technocrats or those who have a professional interest
in it.
The same was true of Lisbon - and even honest eurocrats like McCreevy
admitted they hadn't read it.
> Clearly the intention
> with Lisbon is to give the CoM a more visibly public role with its
> President being higher up the pecking order than the Commission's
> President. Not yet it seems but in good time.....all part of
> constructing the new United States of Europe but with an unelected
> President as No.2 or No.3 in the world.
>
> ISTM the parallel between the EU and Britain is that the EU
> Commission is equivalent to our Civil Service but has enjoyed far
> more power and autonomy, whereas the CoM is more like our
> Executive/Cabinet which sets the agenda and decides policy, then
> throws it over the wall to the Commission for implementation. The
> Commission has always had a lot of power/freedom as to *how* it
> implements CoM policy which has created examples of stupidity...
> straight bananas etc.
>
Indeed. And where is the "elected" parliament in all this?
Nowhere. It's a talking shop of castrates, the EU's harem servants.
This week's Economist mentions they didn't even have the expertise to come
up with their own opinion on the proposed fund managers directive - they had
to commission a report from the private sector before they knew what to
think.
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