“People say that Herman Van Rompuy is a conciliator. We shall see. But it is interesting to note that France vetoed Jean-Claude Juncker (Ed: the prime minister of Luxembourg and chair of Eurogroup), a candidate who stood for the whole history of Europe”, grumbled the co-chair of the Greens/EFA Group at the EP, Daniel Cohn-Bendit of Germany, at a press conference the day after the Belgian prime minister was appointed president of the European Council for two and a half years....