Brussels is already back to business as usual. The European election results have been buried deeply away, like a traumatic childhood memory, and the haggling for jobs has started.
You might have got the impression that rebellious, Euro-critical parties made the greatest advances, but that’s not the view they take in the palaces and chanceries. As far as Eurocrats are concerned, the people have given them a massive mandate to carry on as before. Nearly two thirds of the total vote, they say, went to Euro-integrationist parties. The populist insurgency has peaked.
Of course, when they speak in public, EU leaders have to go through the motions of taking the results on board. So they talk of the need to “do more” to create jobs, “do more” to connect with people, “do more” to make the EU relevant. What they absolutely won’t admit, though the opinion polls clearly show it, is that most people in most member states want the EU to do less.
So, who will get the goodies? Will it be Jean-Claude Juncker, the canny Luxembourger who dominated the Grand Duchy’s politics until being dumped at the last election? Or Martin Schulz, the owlish German socialist who was catapulted to fame when Silvio Berlusconi likened him to a concentration camp guard? Might the zombie of Tony Blair rise again, trailing malodorous rags? Or will the post go to a national leader – Ireland’s bland and blameless Enda Kenny or Finland’s Jyrki Katainen? Full story...
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You might have got the impression that rebellious, Euro-critical parties made the greatest advances, but that’s not the view they take in the palaces and chanceries. As far as Eurocrats are concerned, the people have given them a massive mandate to carry on as before. Nearly two thirds of the total vote, they say, went to Euro-integrationist parties. The populist insurgency has peaked.
Of course, when they speak in public, EU leaders have to go through the motions of taking the results on board. So they talk of the need to “do more” to create jobs, “do more” to connect with people, “do more” to make the EU relevant. What they absolutely won’t admit, though the opinion polls clearly show it, is that most people in most member states want the EU to do less.
So, who will get the goodies? Will it be Jean-Claude Juncker, the canny Luxembourger who dominated the Grand Duchy’s politics until being dumped at the last election? Or Martin Schulz, the owlish German socialist who was catapulted to fame when Silvio Berlusconi likened him to a concentration camp guard? Might the zombie of Tony Blair rise again, trailing malodorous rags? Or will the post go to a national leader – Ireland’s bland and blameless Enda Kenny or Finland’s Jyrki Katainen? Full story...
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