Barroso : Where is the Identity of a Political Europe ?

The president of EU Parliament's biggest group, EPP, Joseph Daul, officially has asked Barroso, as any other current or future candidate for EU Commission's Presidency, to respect certain conditions on his program, including on "Borders and a clear Identity of Europe".

A strategic issue, which was at the center of June 4 to 7, 2009 EU Parliament Elections, in one way or another, in mainstream Countries, and largelly endorsed by EU Citizens' votes.

It was clearly evoked also by president Sarkozy and Chancelor Merkel's statements, who won 2009 EU Elections after their Berlin' appeal for Europe's "Borders", "identity and Values", as well as their January and June 2009 Paris' calls for "a Political Europe", a term used in Sarkozy's speeches, from 2007 to 2009, as incompatible with Turkey's controversial demand to enter inside the EU.

But, Mr Barroso's short Letter, dated of June 17, doesn't say absolutely nothing about all that : Not even a word. Not even the slightest hint..

If Democracy has a meaning, he should develop his program on this point in order to deserve the votes of the largest group of MEPs in EU Parliament (EPP), and many independents and other groups of MEPs.

Comparatively, all experienced people in European affairs, remember Jean-Claude Juncker's spontaneous reaction, when the Prime Minister of Luxembourg (and today of the prestigious EuroGroup) while chairing the EU in 1997, reacted to an untimely and critical question by a Turkish journalist on EU Council's refusal to consider Turkey's candidacy in the European Summit at Luxembourg, which had been raised in a Press Conference dedicated to the creation of the "Euro" :

- "We (EU Council) are speaking now about VENISE, (where an important EU conference on the creation of the Euro was scheduled). NOT about ISTANBUL or ANKARA !"..

It's not a surprise that Juncker had been UNANIMOUSLY accepted as new EU Commission's President in 2004 by all EU Governments..

The only surprise was that he refused the proposal, leaving the job open for others, as Barroso, etc.

Perhaps, it was because Juncker had guessed (particularly after the 1999 Helsinki Council, which surprisingly accepted Turkey's controversial demand to become a "candidate") what deadlocks and crisis EU was going to face after such a blunder...