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For the Juncker Commission, Belgium is dragging its feet. Pity…

(BRUSSELS2) Most of the European Commissioners today are, if not named, at least known. A few countries that can be counted on the fingers of one hand are still hesitating (*). Among these "hesitant", there is Belgium. It is rather amazing.

The governmental navel and Europe

The flat country has not accustomed us to dragging our feet at European level. Nor to hold a post at the European Commission. The post-election period and the slow negotiation of a government at the federal level certainly explain this state of affairs. But the somewhat obvious sluggishness of the current Prime Minister (Elio di Rupo), who has never been very interested in Europe (unlike his predecessors), like those of most political party leaders, does not leave not surprising for those who know the European fiber of most Belgians. At this rate, the Belgian commissioner will only be able to occupy the portfolio of multilingualism or fruit picking in the Arctic. 😉

It is kind of a shame !

The summit meeting, scheduled for this evening in Brussels, should start the discussion on the main positions within the Commission (even if it is not on the official agenda of the summit which plans to discuss only the position of the High Representative). And Belgium would be absent from this "battle". It is kind of a shame ! To borrow an image and a sporting vocabulary, Belgium, which shone at the World Cup, could not even play a playoff match...

(Nicolas Gros-Verheyde)

(*) The Czech Republic must decide tonight for example

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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