Independent of governments but also of political groups. French Communist Francis Wurtz, correctly explained the vote of his group (the United Left) against the choice of Mr Barroso as president of the European Commission. He said during the debate in Strasbourg (see our bulletin of 23 July, p.4) that his group was opposed to Mr Barroso because of his "political leanings, which are those of the European Council, the Commission and the Parliament". Mr Wurtz thus recognises that the profile of...