Günter Verheugen: enough already

European Commission vice-president Günter Verheugen hit the headlines again last week, questioning the right of smaller EU states to nominate members of the Commission in future. The present Commission has one person from each country, large and small. Mr Verheugen comes, of course, from a large country.

There has to be a debate about the future size and shape of the Commission – the Nice treaty still in force specifies that now we have 27 member states, the next Commission has to have ...