15/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - “The place of the sherpas is in the mountains, not in the European institutions”. That was how the German Liberal member, Alexander Alvaro, MEP, commented on the method chosen by the German EU Council presidency to negotiate the Declaration of Berlin on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome - with the designation of representatives for government leaders, known as “sherpas” (according to the tradition inaugurated by the G7). “We...