With Markos Kyprianou’s resignation and Franco Frattini’s ‘unpaid leave’, two members of the Barroso Commission have left over a year before the end of their term of office. This Commentary by Antonio Missiroli and Jérôme Bacquias assesses the implications of this growing trend: the good news is that there now seems to be political life after Brussels; the bad that the Commission increasingly resembles an outgoing US administration, where the departure of key members towards the end of its term is considered almost a fact of life.

     
20-03-2008