ࡱ> DFC Wbjbj 4I  55555III8 I00000000$.24~)05)055>0R5500i(h)]I$(/T000(N5$jN5 ))&N55)$)0)0d0N5 : the quiet road to 2009 Baron Frankal The new term in Brussels finds most in an upbeat mood. Obsessive discussion about enlargement and then the Treaty has passed, and the focus this year will be on what the EU is actually doing. So, expect to hear a lot in the coming months about the creation of an internal energy market and the EU making mobile phone companies slash the costs of cross-border calls. For many, this meat-and-potatoes stuff is a little boring. It is also a test. Citizens lack of identification and engagement with the EU, together with what the so-called democratic deficit, has long been seen as getting worse, to such an extent that it threatens the Unions very existence. Many EU-watchers have said that the answer is for the EU to stop navel-gazing about institutional reform and focus more on what it does. To a degree, Commission President Barroso agrees with this. For a couple of years he has been steering the Commission towards initiatives that affect peoples lives and that seem to resonate with citizens. There is new Commissioner now vice-President - for communication. Now, then, this theory will be tested. There is even a clear yardstick: the June 2009 European elections. Despite the rising powers of the European Parliament, turnout at European elections has been steadily falling. One excuse for this in 2004 was that the new Member States had just voted in accession referendums and saw no need to vote again. There will be no excuses this time and the EU is already working to push broadcasters to cover the event in a more pan-European way, rather than, until now, as a series of second-rate national elections. This could gain momentum if the two rival blocs in Parliament, the Socialists and the centre-right European Peoples Party, could summon the courage to formally put up candidates to be Commission President, which the Member States would be more-or-less forced to accept if one party convincingly won. Barroso (EPP) is already unofficially running and the former-Belgium Prime-Minister Guy Verhofstadt could well emerge as the Socialist candidate. Such a contest would give the elections a new edge. As well as the standard left-right arguments on which elections are usually fought, the issue of further integration might also be highlighted, as the UK-inclined Barroso, who is also on good terms with German Chancellor Merkel, might point to Verhofstadts well-publicised book, the United States of Europe, which pleads for the euro area Member States to take moderate but significant steps forward towards political integration. Meanwhile though, its the meat-and-potatoes of broadening and deepening the Single Market, Cyprus and Malta adopting the euro, firming up Europes role in the world, opening Schengen to Hungary and others, and putting in place more elements of a common European policy on (im)migration. Lets see what the report card eventually says. 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