Ultimately the Presidents of the Commission and of the Council will have to be directly elected by the Parliament (and the two posts combined into one) to give the EU a real "face" of accountability and democracy.  It's a slow process - there have been improvements since 1979 - and Lisbon would improve things a little further.  But we have a long way to go.

I asked a question about national versus pan European issues dominating the campaigns.  The consensus was that you are talking about 27 distinct elections, not one.

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