16.03.2009, 01:37
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Zitat:Beware of breaking the single market
European governments are turning against the European Commission, with mischief in mind
THE European Commission, say the grumblers of Brussels, is adrift in this economic crisis. Euro-fundamentalists sigh for Jacques Delors, the pugnacious Frenchman who ran the commission—the EU’s executive authority—from 1985 to 1995. Amid economic disarray, it is said, the commission should be seizing its chance to set the agenda for Europe.
One can hear similar complaints about an inactive commission from national leaders, notably President Nicolas Sarkozy of France. At a mini-summit earlier this month, he declined to repeat his previously explicit support for giving José Manuel Barroso, the commission’s president, a second term. Mr Sarkozy’s outburst cheered the anti-Barroso camp in Brussels. Yet in truth, the critics often have contradictory grievances.