Back to the tragedy unfolding in Haiti. A number of MEPs have expressed outrage that the EU high representative for foreign affairs (foreign policy chief), Catherine Ashton, did not head off immediately to Haiti and the EU's work in the country got little visibility compared with the “US aid machine”. Jean Quatremer relayed these accusations, proud that on his website he had been the first person to criticise “Ashton's curious absence”. Fellow bloggers disagreed. Some of their...