The usually rational Howard Davies suggests in today’s FT that EU Commissioners should be chosen the same way major businesses choose their leaders. So, that means no women, an emphasis on management guff rather than results, and ever increasing salaries in the hope that mutual back scratching will result in the winners rewarding the people who picked them. When will the corporate world realise that it’s not much of a role model?
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