The European Commission is not meant to be pushed around by any of the 15 governments in the European Union. Its role is to ensure that European law is enforced and to propose policies that are in the EU'S general interest. Increasingly, however, the commission is looking less like a doughty champion of European interests and more like a seven-stone weakling that keeps getting sand kicked in its face by national leaders. The most alarming recent example is over fisheries. There is strong evidence that a senior European civil servant was sacked to appease Spain's government; and that Loyola de Palacio, a Spaniard who is one of the commission's two vice-presidents, was working hand-in-hand with the Spanish government to frustrate the commission's own fisheries proposals.
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机译：欧盟15个政府中的任何一个都不打算将欧洲委员会推向高潮。它的作用是确保执行欧洲法律并提出符合欧盟一般利益的政策。但是，该委员会越来越不像欧洲利益的顽强拥护者，而更像是七石弱点，不断被国家领导人踢在脸上。最近最令人震惊的例子是渔业。有充分的证据表明，一名欧洲高级公务员被解职以安抚西班牙政府。西班牙的洛约拉·德·帕拉西奥（Loyola de Palacio）是该委员会的两位副主席之一，他正在与西班牙政府携手合作，挫败该委员会自己的渔业建议。
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