It was before a hostile Chamber that the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, defended, on Thursday 4 July in Strasbourg, in the European Parliament, the package of appointments to key posts in the European Union agreed between the Heads of State or Government earlier this week (see EUROPE B12287A1).
Mr Tusk was straightforward from the start. "To some, the Parliament represents genuine European democracy because of its directly elected Members, while to others it is rather the...