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An EU commission of Alchemists

There is a quote, attributed to William H Gass, that says “The True Alchemist does not change lead into Gold, they change the world into words”. It is a metaphor about the power that a writer has to distill the essence of the world into words on a page. To some extent this is the power of the politician, to distill the essence of the world into policies, which are words on paper. In order to achieve this feat with success, there is a prerequisite of excellence on the part of the writer in the metaphor, or in the persona of the politician, in my parallel. As politicians deal in words, which converted into polices and laws, can shape societies and peoples, they are wholly dependent on the trust, we, the voters, have in them. Mrs Ursula von der Leyen, I have read with interest, just yesterday, your agenda for Europe “A union that strives for more”. In it I have found interesting, albeit very dry descriptions, of a stronger, unified Europe under a vision that, as you so clearly