Attacks in Moscow. The European triumvirate turns to ridicule
(BRUSSELS2) The triple presence – desired by the Lisbon Treaty – of a President of the European Council, a President of the European Commission and a High Representative for Foreign Affairs is beginning to turn ridiculous. Yesterday, following the attacks in Moscow, accredited journalists received three press releases: at 12:05 p.m. Cathy Ashton, at 12:25 p.m. José Manuel Barroso, at 12:35 p.m., Herman Van Rompuy. What are they all saying? The same thing. What else to say besides? Sympathize, send condolences to the victims, express the solidarity of the European Union. But we are not in a playground. Where everyone pushes their little nose, to say I'm the best because I'm the fastest. It is even indecent and disrespectful of the victims. And at each event, it's the same. A little shallot race to be the first. We must now take out the yellow card, the warning card...
It is really useless to have made the Treaty of Lisbon, if it is to arrive at this kind of process! Ladies and gentlemen, a little order. Act in the spirit (and the letter) of the new institutions: as a group. A small statement signed by the same three will undoubtedly have more force than the statement of each one signed in his corner...
(NVP)
