Il ne plaisante pas du tout. Certains diront, go\u00fbtant la situation si inattendue puisqu’il s’agit d’un commentateur britannique et d’un pr\u00e9sident fran\u00e7ais, qu’il n’y a qu’un Britannique pour oser d\u00e9velopper cette id\u00e9e tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieusement, dans une publication tr\u00e8s europ\u00e9enne, de langue anglaise, publi\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles (EUObserver<\/em> du 9 janvier 2009<\/a>). L’auteur est l’honorable Peter Sain ley Berry, un chroniqueur, intellectuel et jouant un r\u00f4le politique au Royaume Uni (politiquement class\u00e9 comme un lib\u00e9ral, membre du parti lib\u00e9ral d\u00e9mocrate apr\u00e8s avoir un des co-fondateurs du parti social-d\u00e9mocrate en 1983, qui fusionna ensuite avec l’actuel parti lib\u00e9ral d\u00e9mocrate); il faut ajouter enfin qu’il est Gallois, bien autant que Britannique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tVoici l’id\u00e9e tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieusement d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e par Peter Sain ley Berry: gardons Sarkozy comme pr\u00e9sident de l’Europe pour au moins deux ans. Introduction et conclusion de la proposition.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe French Presidency of the European Union came to an end on 31 December 2008, or did it? Although the formal six month term has ended a term that saw the President of France transformed into a President of Europe Nicolas Sarkozy shows a reluctance to lay down the baton. His role promoting a cease fire in Gaza is ambiguous. Is the initiative European or French?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbTo those who wondered whether the job of European President, as envisaged by the Lisbon treaty, would be simply a chairman and paper shuffler or someone jetting off to bend ears in Washington, Beijing or Moscow, Sarkozy has given us the answer.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbFor better or worse he has shown what the role will entail and therefore the sort of person required to fill it. The President of Europe has to be someone that can speak on equal terms with Obama, Medvedev and Hu; who can knock on their doors, demand and be granted immediate audience. Sarkozy has done this.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWith no-one of equal Napoleonic energy available to take over from him, it is unsurprising that the man himself should want to carry on. There is, after all, an urgent job to be done, witness his peace initiative in the Middle East. \u00ab\u00a0J’y suis, j’y reste\u00a0\u00bb (here I am, here I stay) he seems to be saying<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t[]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbSo why not, on such a voluntary basis should we not implement one of the Lisbon provisions and simply ask Sarkozy to stay on? Europe’s governments have decided that the Union needs a President. And putting personalities and petty jealousies aside, they have not been displeased, on balance, with the manner in which Sarkozy had performed the role these past six months. They have not jibed at the way that he has reasserted the influence of the Old Continent.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbHe has the benefit now of a certain experience; he is the incumbent. Why not appoint him to carry on for a further two years, subject to a unanimous vote in the European Council and the approval of the European Parliament? Of course we shall not like everything he does, nor the manner in which he does them. But we mustn’t let the best become the enemy of the good. Provided the decision is reversible as in this case it would be (the Council could rescind its blessing at any time) then this voluntary arrangement could work.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIf Europe needed a President in the benign days of the Constitutional Convention, six years ago, how much more does it need one now? Can we wait another year, (even if the Irish vote Yes) with an enfeebled Commission and two small country presidencies, while we reel under a concatenation of shocks conflict, energy, climate, economic that demand urgent action. Sarkozy should be given his Marshall’s baton and told to carry on.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCette appr\u00e9ciation est significative par rapport aux positions britanniques habituelles. Elle confirme bien entendu tout ce qui a pu \u00eatre dit de favorable sur le comportement de Sarkozy durant la pr\u00e9sidence, sur certaines qualit\u00e9s d’activisme du pr\u00e9sident fran\u00e7ais, sur le poids qu’il repr\u00e9sente en tant que pr\u00e9sident fran\u00e7ais justement (\u00abThe President of Europe has to be someone that can speak on equal terms with Obama, Medvedev and Hu; who can knock on their doors, demand and be granted immediate audience. Sarkozy has done this<\/em>\u00bb). La th\u00e8se g\u00e9n\u00e9rale elle-m\u00eame pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par Sarkozy, est expos\u00e9e par Peter Sain ley Berry, \u00e0 savoir que ces temps exceptionnels n\u00e9cessitent un pr\u00e9sident europ\u00e9en suffisamment repr\u00e9sentatif pour pouvoir agir efficacement. La chose se mesure d’autant plus par rapport \u00e0 la situation actuelle, avec la pr\u00e9sidence tch\u00e8que: \u00ab[The Czechs<\/em>] will no doubt do as expected and perform a competent job in running a conventional presidency. But we have moved on; we are living now in extraordinary times. To maintain the political initiative something more is needed than a conventional presidency.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tUne telle prise de position montre que la pr\u00e9sidence fran\u00e7aise, mais aussi et essentiellement les \u00e9v\u00e9nements qui l’ont accompagn\u00e9e bien entendu, ont marqu\u00e9 un tournant dans la perception g\u00e9n\u00e9rale qu’on a de la question des institutions et de la direction europ\u00e9ennes. Il s’agit d\u00e9sormais d’une question ouverte, qui se pose d’ailleurs dans des termes politiques pr\u00e9cis extr\u00eamement pol\u00e9miques. Peter Sain ley Berry soutient l’id\u00e9e de maintenir \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence de l’Europe un homme qui se prononce<\/a> ouvertement pour une r\u00e9forme radicale du capitalisme alors que les institutions europ\u00e9ennes ont dans ce domaine une position tr\u00e8s orthodoxe de maintien de la doctrine, et que la th\u00e8se est loin d’\u00eatre \u00e9pous\u00e9e par une majorit\u00e9 de pays europ\u00e9ens. Mais il s’agit bien de temps exceptionnels.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 10 janvier 2009 \u00e0 23H22<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Il ne plaisante pas du tout. Certains diront, go\u00fbtant la situation si inattendue puisqu’il s’agit d’un commentateur britannique et d’un pr\u00e9sident fran\u00e7ais, qu’il n’y a qu’un Britannique pour oser d\u00e9velopper cette id\u00e9e tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieusement, dans une publication tr\u00e8s europ\u00e9enne, de langue anglaise, publi\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles (EUObserver du 9 janvier 2009). 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