(Third edition) 
 
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
 
 
In a historic second referendum on a treaty changing the way the European Community functions (the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community (Conference of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States 2007), alias the Lisbon [...]

Sir,
 
Regarding ‘Barroso warns opponents not to weaken Europe’:
 
I would like to share with you my personal view on why José Manuel Barroso should not be re-elected as president of the Commission of the European Communities (alias the European Commission).
 
I would not support Mr. Barroso for a second term because:
 
1)  The legislation developed by the Commission [...]

 
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Emerson
 
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
 
The hypocrisy of the European Institutions has been the focus of public debate ever since the resignation of President Jacques Santer’s Commission of [...]

The Subsistence Expenses Deceit

 
In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
 

Part 2: The EPSO’s Personal Data Protection Policy Deceit

Part 1: The Treaty of Lisbon Deceit

 
 
Note to the reader: Some attachments have been omitted or replaced by blank forms in the present entry and personal data have been removed out [...]

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
 
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their [...]

The EPSO’s Personal Data Protection Policy Deceit
 
In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
 

Part 1: The Treaty of Lisbon Deceit

 
 
Last week I read a statement issued by the Commission of the European Communities (alias the European Commission, EC) in response to claims made by a group of framers called [...]

The Treaty of Lisbon Deceit
 
In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
 
In my entry “The EU institutions’ hypocritical fight against climate change” I already raised the issue of the integrity of the Commission of the European Communities (alias the European Commission, EC). This entry puts a start to a [...]

 
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Emerson
 
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
 
 
I would like to begin this entry by thanking Eberhard Rhein for his response to my letter to the editor of EurActiv.com titled “The [...]

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
Thomas Jefferson
 
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
Andrew Jackson

There is hardly any person living in Europe who does not come across names such [...]

Sir,
Yesterday I read the article ‘Fresh start with new members’ statute’ on the European Parliament’s website [1]. The article reminded me of a press release by Open Europe [2] drawing public attention to the money pit that the benefits to be received by the members of the Commission of the European Communities presided by José [...]