CIG 2007: when fatigue plays tricks

(B2) 36 hours of negotiation + days of preparation exhausted the best sprinters. As a result, the series of reactions which followed the end of the European summit was a festival… of errors.
The prize goes, honor and honor, to… the German presidency. “A happy day for Europe” cites as progress the reduction of the Commission from 27 members to… 15 (instead of 18, the text speaks of two-thirds).
Second on the list: the French socialist group in the European Parliament which, in a press release, regrets the disappearance of the legal bases for public services. The Socialists have got their feather duster tangled up: not only is this basis retained, but it is even reinforced by a protocol.
Third (in the order of arrival of reactions): the French Socialist leader, Ségolène Royal, who regrets an “agreement which will only be applicable in 2014” – confusing in passing a single provision of the text (on voting rights ) effectively postponed to 2014 — with all the rest, which is applicable, as usual for a Treaty, from the last ratification....

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