by
Eric Maurice
Part
4 - Court of Versailles
Meanwhile,
also last week, various spokespeople plus Juncker himself brushed
aside other questions - about why a commission vice president, Jyrki
Katainen, had met Jose Manuel Barroso, a former commission president
turned lobbyist, despite promises from Barroso not to lobby
commissioners - or about why Katainen had given two versions of the
meeting, first saying it was official (although with no notes taken)
and then that it was "just a beer" between friends.
In both
cases, the commission's reaction to journalists questions was the
same: all is fine, stop asking questions.
"This
is nothing," Juncker said about the Katainen-Barroso case,
ironically during his press conference about Selmayr's elevation.
By
raising Robespierre's ghost's, the spokesman may after all have a
point.
In the
Berlaymont, just like in the court at Versailles, the commission in
its final days gives the impression that princes, favourites and
faithfuls act like if what is good for them was good for the general
interest, refusing any criticism or questioning.
Some of
them may know that on 14 July 1789, king Louis XVI had only one word
in his diary: "Nothing".
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