Monday, September 29, 2014

Reuters / Yahoo News: EU's Juncker team faces make-or-break hearings - But lawmakers ... face a torrid interrogation." (A live band will be playing "Bolero" in the background, complete with castanets, strobe lights and smoke machine. Seriously, besides its ungainly bizarre byzantine bureaucratic administrative structure, the whole concept is an example of tragic-comic PC utopianism, expecting the people of Denmark and Greece to behave the same, and is essentially virulently anti-European in its Multicultural Marxist-predatory capitalist open-borders policies, just like across the rest of the West, only on steroids.)


EU's Juncker team faces make-or-break hearings




BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The next 10 days could make or break a plan to reshape the European Union under new management in an attempt to revive the economy and regain trust among its half-billion people.
From Monday, members of a European Parliament elected on a wave of anti-Brussels protest will subject nominees for posts on executive European Commission to hearings that could wreck the line-up and a complex new structure proposed by its incoming president, Jean-Claude Juncker.
The former Luxembourg prime minister has presented his team as "political, not technocratic", featuring several former premiers and fewer career bureaucrats.
But lawmakers are uneasy about several of his appointments and the nominees from Britain, France, Spain and Hungary face a torrid interrogation. ...