It is so easy to get exasperated with the European Union – its lack of ambition, its multiple co-ordination failures, its notorious ability to disappoint. And was not last week’s nomination of Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton to the two big jobs created by the Lisbon treaty further proof of the EU’s tendency to settle for the lowest common denominator? Have we wasted a unique chance of global leadership by not appointing Tony Blair or some other star, or at least somebody whose name we know how to spell?
Read this article in the FT here.
