EU Defines "Important" and "Powerful"

EU Commissioner Margot Wallstrom is Europe's champion of the "unintentionally funny." She reaffirmed her record last Friday in a blogpost beginning:

A very important event happened yesterday: The Commission put a white band around the Berlaymont to show its support for the Global Call to Action against Poverty campaign. It might not sound like much but on a day when the Council was meeting to discuss the Constitution and the Budget this was a powerful statement to make. I support President Barroso 100% when he says the problems of the EU are put in their proper perspective when you think of 25,000 people dying every day because they don‘t have food or water or medicine. This is the 21st Century. We have the money and we have the resources to put an end to poverty. We must end this and the time to act is now. I will come back to this subject again but I want to hear your views.

Don't miss the various reader comments, some loony, but most mocking the Constitution and Margot's daring assault on poverty. Europe's embrace of the absurd will be complete when Christo takes charge as the Union's President.