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"It is in the interests of European democracy that key political positions be filled by election rather than by appointment" (Photo: French presidency of the EU)

A suggestion for President Sarkozy

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France comes to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Thursday to outline his priorities for the coming six months of the French presidency. Allow me to suggest what one of them should be.

He will already be thinking about how to fix the Lisbon treaty, faced with its unexpected rejection by the Irish electorate in their referendum last month. That treaty was intended to make the EU institutions more effective and accountable in the way they operate, and ...

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"It is in the interests of European democracy that key political positions be filled by election rather than by appointment" (Photo: French presidency of the EU)

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