Comments on: The new EU appointees: first reactions may be wrong http://crossick.blogactiv.eu/2009/11/21/the-new-eu-appointees-first-reactions-may-be-wrong/ Rated 6th most influential EU blog by Waggener Edstrom. European of British nationality, for nearly 30 years Bruxellois. Deep believer in the principle of 'mutuality' and Monnet's axiom "Thought cannot be divorced from action", equivalent to Wang Yangming's "Zhixingheyi". Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Paul Giles http://crossick.blogactiv.eu/2009/11/21/the-new-eu-appointees-first-reactions-may-be-wrong/#comment-3351 Paul Giles Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:28:17 +0000 http://crossick.blogactiv.eu/?p=1119#comment-3351 "...both have been effective in domestic politics..." Ashton has never even stood for election, let alone been elected to anything. “…both have been effective in domestic politics…”

Ashton has never even stood for election, let alone been elected to anything.

]]> By: Julien Frisch http://crossick.blogactiv.eu/2009/11/21/the-new-eu-appointees-first-reactions-may-be-wrong/#comment-3350 Julien Frisch Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:08:45 +0000 http://crossick.blogactiv.eu/?p=1119#comment-3350 There are two big problems with both persons: 1) They cannot inspire citizen (plus they are totally unknowns), and what the EU needs at this stage would be some more inspiration. 2) They might be persons who can build consensus, but they are only able to build a consensus on existing policy orientations of member states; they lack the substance to get a consensus on new level; they are not able to push the European Council or the member states forward towards new "frontiers". So they will be administrators - hopefully good - but they are not the politicians the Union needs for the beginning of the 21st century. There are two big problems with both persons:

1) They cannot inspire citizen (plus they are totally unknowns), and what the EU needs at this stage would be some more inspiration.

2) They might be persons who can build consensus, but they are only able to build a consensus on existing policy orientations of member states; they lack the substance to get a consensus on new level; they are not able to push the European Council or the member states forward towards new “frontiers”.

So they will be administrators – hopefully good – but they are not the politicians the Union needs for the beginning of the 21st century.

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