The likes of Merkel, Cameron, Hollande etc congregrated today in Brussels and in all their wisdom chose some fine new Europeans to lead us all into the future..
New European President Donald Tusk doesn't speak English or French, but he must be good in Polish. The freshly elected High Representative for Foreign Relations doesn't speak the language of international diplomacy as she has zero experience.
Together they won't understand each other nor the world at large.
Some fine choices again…..
The reasoning was probably that electing a Polish prime minister as European President would be a 'strong' signal to Rusland and supportive for the Eastern European countries. And it helps that nobody will understand him, makes it easier to ignore him in times of crisis until he found himself a translator.
Italian Federica Mogherini was chosen to head European foreign relations because well, uhm, her predecessor was a woman and that worked well so let's repeat that.
Nobody ever took notice of Lady Ashton, so a 41 year old girl, just six month on the job as foreign minister in Italy will be even better less noticeable.
After all, we can't have strong European leadership as the old boys heading the national governments wouldn't like that.
Europe one voice? Speaking in tongues like always!
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Donald Tusk elected European Council President and Federica Mogherini appointed…
Donald Tusk elected European Council President and Federica Mogherini appointed as new EU High Representative
Donald Tusk has been Prime Minister of… – European Commission: Google+
Godspeed
Incompetence seems to be the preferred approach in the club 🙁
Let's give them a chance. Especially Federica. I think she can be good for the EU – RUSSIA relations. Enough hate already.
Yes, quite obviously PR figureheads. I doubt Germany, France and England want any differences of opinion to cloud matters in these crucial times. Enough hate? On behalf of whom? Let's just blame the trees for causing a forest fire; after all if they hadn't been in the wrong place at the wrong time……
What are you guys smoking? Donald Tusk speaks German and is more able to communicate effectively with Russia which is what is truly needed.
+Peter Malaczynski The most important task for the head of the EU Council is get all these national ego's on one line and French and English are the languages of choice there.
It's very much an internal job.