In the gloomiest days of the financial collapse, the European Union didn’t make anything. Only European prime ministers have taken decisions, when EU’s commission was silent. Practically, like Badoglio in the 8th of September (with the dissolution of the Italian fascist bureaucracy), the Eurocracy melt. For a moment, we hoped it was starting to die.

Instead, NO! It continued to work, as usual: in the darkness! Busily, Barroso gathers together secret groups to solve a problem that he (and Monsanto) considers really urgent: to rout people’s opposition to Genetically Modified Seeds.

During last summer, Barroso, EU commission’s president, written a letter to all Chiefs of State and Prime Ministers of the 27 Member-states, asking them to send to Bruxelles a representative to build a “political workgroup” about GMOs, known in corridors of Bruxelles as “Sherpa’s group”.

The typical euro-…