Ο εκδότης της εφημερίδας New Europe, Βασίλης Κορωνάκης στέλνει επιστολή στον Πρόεδρο της Κομισιόν Jean Claude Juncker και τον προετοιμάζει για το δύσκολο 2015.

«Hope you got a chance to relax, as 2015 will be a difficult year. Yet it will be full of challenges, controversies and surprises. At least it won’t be boring. 2015 and the years to come will be the years of your long journey to Ithaca, the journey of your life.

From Captain of a beautiful luxury yacht, Luxemburg and the Eurogroup, sailing in the calm waters of Mare Nostrum, you have been promoted to Chief Admiral. Now you are at the helm of the Transoceanic Europe, navigating through rough uncharted waters in the open sea. On board, you are carrying half a billion souls of all colours, from the neo-Communists of the south to the neo-Nazis of the north and in the between a huge middle-class of family people, under rapid depletion. I do not envy you.

However, dear President, you are lucky because you have an excellent crew. Your team is the best any administration could ever dream off. Your success will depend of how you motivate them and how you will use them.

Back in the old days, in Aristotelian terms, the Commission was the aristocratic administration of the western world. The best were ruling. Today, you have the best soldiers but with few exceptions your generals, are not promoted because of “what they know,” but “who they know.” This is unfair both for the people working for you and for Europe.

Here, dear President you should remember the philosopher-king and restore the status quo ante. Forget about making happy the Brussels intelligentsia by doing “things right” to prove you are a good manager. You are the leader and leaders do the “right thing”.

You have to make changes in your team and you have to do it from the top all the way to the bottom. In April, you will have to replace the Secretary General of the Commission, Catharine Day. She is efficient, competent and hardworking but she has to go. It is obvious why.

Yet, Catharine Day is one of the best you have in your team and she must continue to serve Europe. Thus it could be an idea to appoint her Ambassador of the EU in China. Think how critical she could be for EU-China relations in the coming years. She is the best for the job, working faithfully and efficiently, “day and night” and will look after the interests of Europe. China is very important to Europe and any diplomat coming from any member state will first look after the interests of his own country, then, if some space is left will look for what is good for Europe as well.

As regards the new Secretary General, according to rumours in Berlaymont corridors, you have been “recommended” a British national. What do you owe to Downing Street? Nothing!

The new Secretary General could well be the sitting Director General of OLAF. He is intelligent, equally hard working and most importantly honest. He also comes from the Socialist Party and his appointment will make several people in Brussels happy.

First, it will make you yourself happy because he will do the job.

Second, it will please the president of CONT at the European Parliament and those who want him out of OLAF and are suggesting offering him to become Director General Justice.

Last but not least, it will be a superb political move since you will be making happy the Socialists who have treated you very fairly.

And, you will politically reciprocate the courtesies S&D President Gianni Pittella extended to your Commission and to you personally, on various occasions, some critical.

In this way, by your own initiative, you will consolidate a political understanding between the two big political families of Europe, much needed if you do not wish to witness EU dismembering on your watch.

Catharine Day to Beijing and Giovanni Kessler to the Secretariat General. Does not look bad, after all.

Think about it.»

Πηγή: neweurope.eu

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Διαβάστε την επιστολή όπως δημοσιεύτηκε στην εφημερίδα New Europe την Τρίτη 14 Οκτωβρίου 2014.

«Dear President, First things first, Mr. President. You were elected by the vote of European citizens and your election was validated by the Heads of State and the European Parliament. Yet, the essence is that you were elected by European citizens.

Your predecessor was not elected by the citizens of Europe. He was appointed by the Heads of State as a result of endless Byzantine machinations in a shameful give-and-take process and his appointment was formally ratified by the European Parliament.

And, although you have formally the same prerogatives of your predecessor, you are legitimized to take political decisions that your predecessor was not. Indeed, you are the elected President of the European Commission, you are the political leader of the government of half a billion Europeans; contrarily to the outgoing President who in political terms was nothing more that the Secretary of the Council of the Member States.

This qualitative difference gives you the right and the obligation to behave politically. This is your challenge Mr. President and this is what will bring the change we need in Europe.

Europe is in deep crisis and European citizens, those that have voted for you and also those that did not vote for you, expect on the first of November you will assume your position and will start working to bring the Union out of the crisis. Bring development, give jobs to our youth and give hope to the people.

You know pretty well, President, that this crisis, which was intelligently branded as economic, is political. It is deeply political. That Citizens believe what they believe is only the result of a superb management of perceptions which the ruling elite passed to Urbi et Orbi using systemic media which were mobilized on the occasion.

Mr. President, you are one of the few “political animals” left in this continent, you have a political mandate and you have the will.

On the first of November Mr. President, your Commission must take over. If Slovenia, or any other member state twice failed to nominate a Commissioner acceptable by the Parliament, is not your problem and this certainly cannot stop your Commission from taking over.

Simply, Mr. President, proceed without Slovenia. As you do not need to pass any hearing to assume any responsibility in your Commission, leave Slovenia out and take its portfolio yourself letting the Director General to do the job and be sure that they will do a good job.

The Treaty after all, is clear. The number of Commissioners must be smaller that the number of Member States. That is why the High Representative, Federica Mogherini, although vice-President is not a Commissioner.

Furthermore, the Treaty does not say how many Commissioners less than the number of Member States there should be. This will be also a clear message to all Member States, large and small, and this message will be the first chapter of the history you are now writing, Mr. President.

Make the difference Mr. President, and liberate Europe. This is your only way.

Basil A. Coronakis
​Editor
New Europe»

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