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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10524

5 January 2012
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Tomorrow's EU: institutional problems, European Parliament's increasing role

Difficult to understand. Denmark has just taken up the reins of the presidency of the Council for the next six months and everything would suggest that this will be an efficient and balanced presidency. The president of the European Council obviously maintains his prerogatives because the terminology is misleading: the two bodies are separate and their tasks are significantly different. For our readers, this goes without saying. Public opinion, however, and most journalists in non-EU...