Pour Cohn-Bendit, l'UE "a atteint le fond" avec Ashton et Van Rompuy, Europe - Information NouvelObs.com		Cohn-Bendit: EU "plumbs the depths" with Ashton and van Rompuy - Nouvel Observateur
"L'Europe a atteint le fond", a dénoncé jeudi 19 novembre le chef de file des Verts au Parlement européen, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, [...] "...Ce qui est bien, c'est que nous n'avons plus devant nous que des bonnes surprises. Les choses ne peuvent que s'améliorer", a soutenu Daniel Cohn-Bendit. "Après avoir nommé un faible président de la Commission européenne, ils ont désormais nommé un président du Conseil falot et une Haute représentante insignifiante [...] ...les chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement ont poursuivi leur politique d'affaiblissement des institutions européennes".		"Europe is plumbing the depths," according to European Parliament Green leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit [...] "...The good thing is we have nothing ahead but good surprises. Things can only get better," said Daniel Cohn-Bendit. "After appointing a weak Commission President, now they've appointed a colourless Council President and an insignificant High Representative [...] ...the heads of state and government have continued their policy of weakening European institutions."

I was hoping for D'Alema - not so much because he's Italian as because he's ME-friendly, talks to everyone, successfully finangled that ceasefire resoluton on Lebanon that screwed the US into OKing clauses that assured a NEUTRAL buffer-force between Leb and Israel that gets on fine with the Lebanese (all faiths) instead of what the US wanted i.e. an Israel-proxy goonsquad to kick down doors and plant euro-boots on the Shi'ite population's necks.  So I had hopes that if we got D'Alema - whom Israel formally-objected to 'cause horror of horrors, he actually talks with H*a*m*a*s!! - he might actually succeed in getting Gaza de-blockaded, force through a reasonable just-solution Palestinian state! So booohooo and grrrrr!  Also worried about having a Brit - ANY Brit - in the FP slot because they're major troublemakers re relations with Russia.  Plus he's NOT a neoliberal... and as the Presidency-thingy was going to a northerner it seemed only-fair to give the FP post to a southerner/Mediterranean-critter. If not D'Alema, I'd have been perfectly happy with Moratino... or a Greek. But a Brit??? - regardless of such irrelevancies as the nonentity's gender-if-any, Brits AS SUCH are bad-bad news for the EU and its "neighbourhood".. :-(

"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami

That was the argument: the "better red than dead" label was stuck onto anyone who was not fiercely anti-communist and/or who opposed anything advocated by the "better dead than red" crowd. Anyone who sought middle ground was accused of thinking "better red than dead" and therefore untrustworthy.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."