It's normal, in business...

The analogy is no good. The EU is not a business. The fact that each government can hide behind anonymity means that, not only is it not elected to run the EU, it has no accountability either. This is a direct and potent source of anti-EU sentiment, because each minister can run home and prattle to his national press, without fear of contradiction, about the nasty things Brussels is forcing him to do.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}