The Guardian | The EU’s gentlemen’s club
“Right now in Brussels the heads of the 27 national governments of the European Union’s member states will be milling around.
Gordon Brown will be lobbying for Tony Blair, Herman Van Rompuy will be trying to persuade people he is not as anonymous as many fear, and José Manuel Barroso will be pottering around pompously having already been nominated for another term as commission president. Everyone will agree on something, but no one will be happy.”