NATO Summit Is No Place for Unaccountable Eurocrats
It was reported last week that Turkey has blocked the European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, and the EU’s President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, from attending the upcoming NATO Summit in Chicago. Neither has any business attending the Summit, and Turkey was correct in blocking their attendance. There are two good reasons why neither Barroso nor Van Rompuy needs to be representing the European Union at Chicago. First, the European Union is largely a supranational entity. The Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, works for and … More
