Did I tell you about the new Article 291?

Did I tell you about the new Article 291?

The conference went well, and my fellow panel members, Mark Gray from the European Commission’s spokesman’s service, and Gregor Schusterschitz, from the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were both informative and insightful. But, in what is surely an early example of Lisbon fatigue, the audience were all done after a day of wrapping their heads around such sexy (but actually very important) topics as comitology after Lisbon. Aftewards, Mark, Gregor and I remembered and compared the dreams of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing with the prosaic reality of today’s Treaty. Ah! What might have been! If only! That led us to invent a new party game. It goes like this: if the European Union decided to have its own Mount Rushmore, where would it be and who would be represented? Answers on a postcard, please…