The Grubby EU post-Lisbon already takes shape

Bruno Waterfield's Telegraph blog reports the decadence and thus the need for secrecy, read from here. A taster: So important and advanced is this discussion that José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President felt the need to ask for a dinner (informal, not attributable and secret) with ambassadors, this took place on Tuesday. He, and others in the Commission, are concerned that the new EU President is going to be far more than a figurehead or a backroom boy. There will be winners and losers. The Commission is worried.