With respect to José Manuel Barroso's renewal to his office as president of the Commission, it is advisable to keep cautious as Mr. Barroso is facing strong oppositions in the European Parliament from right and extreme left Eurosceptics to left and centre Europhiles as the Green MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the German socialist Martin Schulz are organizing to get MEPs against him. The victory of the European People's Party does not guarantee a majority of the votes for Barroso whose renewal is supported by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy who are asking him to feature a more volontarist programme. British outgoing leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament, Graham Watson, wants to become the next President of the European Parliament. To do so, he is more than interested in President Barroso's programme, but the 85 ALDE MEPs of the European Parliament are not united on the question of Mr. Barroso's renewal. This could press on or against Barroso being renewed and is thus strategical for Mr. Watson to get the Presidency of the European Parliament for half a term of office in exchange. There is a race against the clock as Euroscepticism in Great Britain where the leader of the conservative opposition David Cameron promised to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty even though the ratification process is completed in the country. And this could happen following the collapse of Gordon Brown and the Labour as there is "no written constitution and government can do anything it wants" in this country insists Graham Watson. Moreover, if the Europhobic conservative Presidents of the Czech Republic and Poland manage to postpone their signings of the Treaty up to Cameron's election and coming to power, then the Lisbon Treaty is dead. For the full Le Monde's article click here. Marion Van Renterghem is a critic at Le Monde and the 2003-Albert Londres award-winner of the 65th French press prize.