The Latvian Commissioner who took up office this weekend, Sandra Kalniete. A woman of some strong views :

Now 51, she slays the sacred cows of Europe’s Left with relish. “How can I accept the United Nations as the highest authority when it was never able to side with the just cause during the Cold War?” she said.

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“Britain is a definite superpower and their diplomats are good, very good,” she said at her headquarters off Freedom Street, formerly Vladimir Lenin Street. “They’re not only skilful but they know how to hide their arrogance. It’s not always the case with others.”
Asked what she thought of the French diplomatic elite, she asked for the tape-recorder to be switched off.

She is now in charge of the most ludicrous and ruinous of all of the EU policies, the Common Fisheries Policy. We’ll have to see if she is able to sort that out.