The strange case of Lisbon

Business paper Il Sole 24 Ore uses the Benjamin Button character from American author F. Scott Fitzgerald's novella to illustrate how the Lisbon Treaty is already outdated. "The new Treaty has made its entrance into the world … not as the long dreamed-of constitution, nor as a handbook for the 27 [member states]. Don't get out the champagne. Like the father of Benjamin Button, Scott Fitzgerald's character who is forced to live his life backwards, when we look into the cradle we find a wrinkled old man rather than a vigorous newborn baby with 27 souls. … The greedy distribution of the newly created posts doesn't presage … renewal. … Europe should quickly find its way back to itself to avoid its downfall. We - unlike Benjamin Button - don't have our whole lives in front of us to grow younger."

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