Everyone has forgotten that the European executive prepared
the budget which is currently being negotiated by European leaders. And
there is a simple reason for this: Commission President José Manuel
Barroso has become invisible. Libération’s Brussels correspondent
deplores what he describes as a political “suicide”.
In political terms, the Commission has sunk without a trace. Those who still have doubts about this only have to look at the demonstration that is now taking place before their eyes: at a time when the Commission is supposed to defend its proposal for the 2014-2020 budget (the “multiannual financial framework”) before Europe’s 27 heads of state and government, which is its most important legislative responsibility and the one that will orient the Union over the next seven years, it is quite simply absent from the debate.
Read more: http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/3071541-commission-nowhere-be-seen
In political terms, the Commission has sunk without a trace. Those who still have doubts about this only have to look at the demonstration that is now taking place before their eyes: at a time when the Commission is supposed to defend its proposal for the 2014-2020 budget (the “multiannual financial framework”) before Europe’s 27 heads of state and government, which is its most important legislative responsibility and the one that will orient the Union over the next seven years, it is quite simply absent from the debate.
Read more: http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/3071541-commission-nowhere-be-seen
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