European Commission is in danger of losing its authority
THE new European Commission headed by Jean-Claude Juncker is off to a rocky start.
However, one would not know it from reading the headlines. As Sherlock Holmes understood, a dog that does not bark in the nighttime usually goes unnoticed. In Europe’s case, the European Union’s fiscal rules are at issue, and the commission — in principle, the EU’s watchdog — should bark loudly when they are flouted.
