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