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The Brussels European Council of 12 and 13 December marked the end of the last complete presidency before European elections and began an ‘end of term’ period for Parliament and the Commission.
This end of term period appears to be marked by the institutions’ being hamstrung by the blocking of the draft Constitution – see my explanation of vote on the IGC results – by the fact that the Commission, shaken by successive scandals, has failed to re-establish control – see my explanation of vote on the 2004 Commission Work Plan. There were also two highly revealing conclusions by the Brussels Council.
Firstly, the decision to announce a ‘quickstart’ programme of major works, without clarifying how this is to be financed. Secondly, the concern prompted by the almost total lack of follow-up, at Member State level, of the Lisbon Strategy, initially aimed at making the European economy more competitive.
The impression is given of a European system running on empty, within which Member States no longer have anything but headline aims. Is this not an inevitable backlash; the consequence of an uncontrollable desire to do everything, to dominate everything?"@en1
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