Autonomy of Commissioners. I am going to radically distance myself from most of the commentaries I read last month on the sharing out of duties and responsibilities at the Barroso Commission. What I often read consisted of a saga of blinkered nationalism, which was rather distressing and ominous: most of the analyses attempted to assess which Member States came out on top (and which ones lost out) in the distribution of portfolios, which of them had obtained most powers and chances for...