Commissioners take position. Some of the reactions to the Barroso document on the Lisbon Strategy were extreme, some going so far as to accuse him of killing the spirit. You may have noticed that having made its many criticisms, the body which represents workers' unions (the European Trade Unions Confederation, ETUC) has playing something of a waiting game. Its Secretary General John Monks says that he is deeply concerned and in a “state of alert”, but adds that he “intends to know the...