Ms Paciotti is right. In reporting back on the Parliamentary debate on the Presidency of the European Council (see this section on 20 February) I was obliged to not include some of the contributions. I'll now have a look at the intervention of Elena Paciotti (democratici di sinistra), who developed a powerful argument against a long-term full-time President of the European Council. The Council is by nature unstable and subject to change: it consists of ministers (or Heads of Government, for...