A great Day for Europe and Democracy!

Yes! Finally Europe is getting a democratic touch!
Gone are the days where the Commission was a sort of Dinning Club for acquaintances of national leaders, who got a good salary, a nice opportunity to corrupt the system, and most importantly of all, didn’t stand in the way of the European council – or more accurately the national governments themselves.
For the first time the European parliament – after all the elected body of the European citizens, even if hardly any of them actually knew what they were voting on – has refused to simply accept the choice of the national governments.
And for that matter they have spared Europe the embarrassment of having a Commissioner for “Justice, Freedom and security” – rather odd combination in any case – who openly stated that he regards gays as sinners, and thinks that women should stay in the kitchen. This would, if anyone outside the EU had taken any notice of it at all, almost equalled some of Bushes more famous statements. And all this two days before a constitution, which states, that European values are “pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity, and equality btween women and men", ”, is signed, ironically in Rome!
What sort of message would that have been?
Yes we believe in the equality of men and women, but our leading guy for justice actually regards, that this equality mustn’t leave the house, as he wishes his wife to cook.
And what are our fellow Europeans doing? They cry ‘ceter and mordio’ (sorry only suitable for German speakers) and declare the European project for over! Sorry I don’t get that. Finally the EU institutions are actually doing what they are supposed to do – controlling each other for the common good – and suddenly the apocalypse is declared.
No, whatever some of the press think, this was a really good day for Europe. Yes, it will take some time to sort where which authority lies and who is in charge, but the result can actually only be better than the situation at the moment, where Europe is only used as a scapegoat for failures of national leaders – this wasn’t my fault it was all down to Brussels – while at the same time not giving up any power to the EU.