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Nov 26th 2009
From The Economist print edition
The European Union's choices for its new top jobs reveal a pitiful lack of global ambition
This time the choice of EU leaders that the organization is extremely exposed the lack of global ambition
THE Roman poet Horace might have been summing up today's European Union when he wrote that mountains will be in labour, and will give birth to a ridiculous mouse. their union look ridiculous.
The appointment of two little-known and little political experience, featuring the first people the new EU president and the highest diplomatic representative of the European Union, the Union leaders to make himself look more and more of the ridiculous.
Both Belgium's Herman Van Rompuy and Britain's Catherine Ashton are decent in their way. Mr Van Rompuy has been a surprisingly effective Belgian prime minister, holding his fissiparous country together well enough for some to fret over his departure from domestic politics. Lady Ashton piloted the Lisbon treaty through the British House of Lords and has handled the European Commission's trade portfolio without falling out with her colleagues (unlike some predecessors), even if she has no foreign-policy background and has never been elected to anything. Both are suited to the endless rounds of consensus-building that the EU loves and lives by.
Rompuy from Belgium and Ashton from the UK work in their respective respected: Mr. Fan Longpei is shown as the Prime Minister of Belgium the amazing efficiency, although some people to leave the country because of his politics but feel worried, but Fanpei Long have split the capacity to make this country still very good together. Although Ms. Ashton is not working background in foreign policy and has never held any position, but she guided the Lisbon Treaty through the House of Lords and the European Commission in the functional trade minister has never been crossed with colleagues face (this point with her Some former different). In view of the European Union reached a consensus favorite, and to the endless adjustments before known, the two called the competence of its staff.
That alone is enough for some Europhiles to welcome these appointments. Yet they miss two points. The first is that the Van Rompuy-Ashton team was manifestly nobody's dream ticket. Mr Van Rompuy emerged only because weightier and better-known candidates, including Britain's Tony Blair, fell foul of the objections of one leader or another. Lady Ashton was the third or even fourth choice of Gordon Brown when Britain was offered the post. Picking people for their inoffensiveness, inexperience (both have been in their jobs for only a year), party affiliation, nationality or sex-everything, in fact, except their abilities-is unlikely to lead to the best candidates.
let alone this has some members of the European Union, the appointment of hands in favor of the above the. But they overlook two points: First, Rompuy - Ashton does not anyone combined the best team in mind. Fan Peilong reason for this is because those who win a greater impact, greater visibility of the different candidates have been criticized leaders, including Britain's Tony Blair can not win. This position in the UK, when the hands of Prime Minister Gordon Brown has a list of candidates, and list Miss Ashton only in the third or even fourth place. When considering candidates they do not prevent others after the value, experience simple and obvious (the two in the workplace is responsible for only a year), political affiliation, nationality and gender, are not concerned about their ability alone; such a selection would be difficult from candidates to find the most qualified people.
The second mistake is to overlook the aims of the Lisbon treaty. Laboriously pushed through after six years (and three rejections by referendum) [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it seeks to give the EU a political role in the world to match its economic weight. The permanent council president replaces the present confusing system that appoints a new president from among EU members every six months. The new high representative for foreign policy will have a portfolio (and budget) in the European Commission as well as a large idea is that the EU should become both more powerful and more accessible for America, China, India and elsewhere.
second mistake is to ignore the objectives of the Treaty of Lisbon. After 6 years of hard-driving was passed, the process has gone through a referendum rejected three times; the Lisbon Treaty to the EU seeking to match their economic magnitude of a political role. President of the European Union with a fixed replace the existing system every 6 months will be elected from the members of the rotating President of the country; new highest diplomatic representative will also be responsible for the European Commission and most of the Lisbon goal is to make the EU more powerful, and with the United States, China, India and other countries a more smooth communication.
But it is hard to see the political leaders of America, China and India, or even their foreign ministers, ever taking Mr Van Rompuy and Lady Ashton entirely seriously. Instead they will talk, as now, to their counterparts in big countries like Germany, France and Britain. That will largely vitiate any notion of the EU at last speaking with one voice, or of answering the famously mythical Kissinger question about whom to call when an outsider wants to talk to Europe.
but the United States and India's political leaders do not take very seriously the Fan - A portfolio of foreign minister did not even put their children too seriously. Even now, they work directly with leaders such as Britain and France, Italy, the direct dialogue. This phenomenon will largely undermine the EU's external ideas with one voice, but also the famous Henry Kissinger could not answer a hypothetical question: When outsiders figured the European dialogue, in the end should contact?
Now every inoffensive Belgian can dream of something
not affect the others, each of the Belgians now can have a dream
It is just as hard to believe that Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy wanted such an outcome when they first resurrected the Lisbon treaty from the bones of the EU constitution. They accepted it now mainly to preserve their own grip on the EU. Many Eurosceptics argue similarly, because they prefer nation-states to Brussels. Yet in truth a weak council president and foreign-policy boss will boost the more federalist actors on the EU stage: the European Commission and its president, José Manuel Barroso, and especially the European Parliament. Indeed, the biggest winners in this, as from the Lisbon treaty itself, are the European Parliament and its pan-European parties-despite their feeble democratic mandate (see article). It is enough to make you wonder, yet again, if the treaty was worth ratifying at all.
German Chancellor Merkel, French President Sa Coach was originally prepared in essence from the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty, hard to believe that the current results is that they need. They accept all the current is mainly due to the need to maintain control of the EU. Many Eurosceptics takes a similar view [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as compared with the EU they are more like the nation-state. The fact that the EU is weak and the highest diplomatic representative of the President is bound to generate more support for a federal board the European stage actors: for example, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, and European Parliament. Although the appointment of its democracy is fragile, but the Lisbon Treaty has created the biggest winner is the European Parliament and the pan-European parties. There are good reasons to allow people to re-think about: whether the Lisbon Treaty should be signed.