Margot Wallström rightfully regrets the absence of female names in the discussion about the top jobs. Frankfurter Rundschau writes that Wallström mentions a couple of (female) European politicians as potentials for the top jobs (without being explicit about the/which president position): Angela Merkel, Mary Robinson, Tarja Halonen, Emma Bonino and Anna Diamantopoulou.
Maybe even more relevant is her criticism of the backdoor wrangling about names – instead of a public contest.
Well, if the so called ‘unelected officials’ of Brussels are able to start thinking about the interests of EU citizens, perhaps a re-think by the (European) Council some day is not pure Utopia either…
By the way, am I to understand that people of the anti-EU kind have and would prefer national elected civil servants and judges?