The parliamentary debate and vote for the new president of the European Commission call for a few comments that are unrelated to each other but which are, in my opinion, important.
1. The figures. The results of Wednesday's vote indicate that: a) even with the application of the Lisbon Treaty rule (which, for the nomination of the Commission president, requires that the votes in favour are greater than the number of parliamentarians by at least half), Mr Barroso would have been elected. The...