Why am I not surprised to read this (via the Daily Telegraph)?

Secret talks to create a European Union President and Foreign Minister will begin in the New Year after the Irish government confirmed it would hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Negotiations on the EU President and Foreign Affairs posts created under the Lisbon Treaty stopped in June when the Irish vote ‘No’.
But with a new Ireland deal done, diplomats have confirmed secret talks on the job description of the EU President and the size of a new European diplomatic service, will now begin – months before the Irish vote again.

And so we are reminded yet again that the contempt of the EU’s governing class for the ‘citizens’ of that wretched union knows no bounds. The feeling, I suspect, is mutual.