It is so easy to get exasperated with the European Union – its lack of ambition, its multiple co-ordination failures, its notorious ability to disappoint. And was not last week's nomination of Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton to the two big jobs created by the Lisbon treaty further proof of the EU's tendency to settle for the lowest common denominator? Have we wasted a unique chance of global leadership by not appointing Tony Blair or some other star, or at least somebody whose name we know how to spell?
我們太容易對歐盟動氣——缺乏雄心、各種合作的失敗、出了名地能讓人失望。上周，赫爾曼?范龍佩(Herman Van Rompuy)與阿什頓女男爵(Baroness Ashton)受命擔任《里斯本條約》(Lisbon treaty)創設的兩個重要職位，難道不是進一步證明了歐盟傾向于采納最低的共同標準？我們沒有任命托尼?布萊爾(Tony Blair)或其他某個明星，或至少是某個我們知道如何拼寫其名字的人，是不是浪費了一次千載難逢的爭取全球領導權的機會？
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