After the France's and Netherlands' NO at the referenda on the European Constitution, after Ireland's NO to the Lisbon Treaty (in fact a new version of the constitutional treaty), after the fall of the electoral participation at the European elections, after Ireland's repetition of the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty (as if it were normal, to approve a treaty, to make people vote again and again, until they resign themselves to accept it), after Mr. Barroso's second mandate as President of the European Commission (as if all we said before were a great reason to re-elect him), even if he presented no program to give new élan to the Union, keeping quite silent for months not to displeasure anybody…
After all this, here's a new smack for the European citizen: two unknowns as President and Foreign Representative of the European Union.

Between December 15th, 2001, as the Laeken Declaration asked the European Convention to prepare a Constitutional Treaty, and December 1st, 2009, as the Lisbon Treaty took effect and both new posts have taken place in their offices, the European Union hasn’t made any step forward: a total failure, considering that the Constitution was written to get the European Institutions closer to the citizens, and to strengthen the democracy of the Union!

Stand up, if you have ever heard the name of the new President of the Union and the name of the new High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy before. Stand up if you know their ideas about Europe, about our future together and about our freedoms. Stand up if you know what they are going to do with our money and our future. Stand up if you know what relations they want to have with other countries in the world. Stand up if you now feel that Europe is closer to you.

I can’t see you, but I guess none of you is now standing: today, Europe is even farther to the citizens than before. It is more bureaucratic and less democratic than before. We've spent eight years, to send some Mr. Nobody to lead Europe: it would have probably been better if we didn’t do it and if we let the President of the Commission represent us. One Mr. Nobody was enough.

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