The EU's unworthy behaviour

The EU is reacting far too hesitantly to France's Roma deportations, writes the left-liberal daily Frankfurter Rundschau: "The Brussels EU Commission ... has a questionable reputation for evading conflicts with member states on a regular basis. This is particularly true when the states in question are big and powerful. Yet the authority has the clout to confidently tackle national governments if it only dared. But it doesn't dare, as the mass deportations of Roma from France show. The behaviour of the Commission is unworthy of its status. It has major misgivings about the conduct of Nicolas Sarkozy's French government. But it is not presenting those objections in an offensive manner. And Commission boss Barroso remains silent."

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