Thus The Wall Street Journal today. “EU spats often get blown out of proportion,” elaborates the newspaper. “But not this one. If the former prime minister of Luxembourg is appointed to lead the European Commission, things will never be the same again.” And all this on account of the fact that Jean-Claude Juncker is a federalist in spite of his right-of-center politics. But it is good to remember that his selection will be democratic only in the sense that the spat now involves a number of leading politicians in the Union. And Angela Merkel is topmost among them. Once again, the electorate will be left far behind. A true defining moment for the Union will come if and when its peoples go for the federalist solution in their own right. But Juncker is likely to alienate the bulk of the electorate while in the lofty office. Although federalism is a logical solution to the European quagmire, it is hardly the popular choice, and especially not in the key countries, such as Germany and France. In short, the defining moment is not yet in sight. Actually, it could have petered out in the early Nineties, when the people of the Union were much closer to the federalist ideas.