What we are talking about here is a publicly funded group of people hanging around like drunken bookies in chat rooms and web forums, in the comments boxes of leading Euro Bloggers all being paid to push the Commission line.
It didn't work for Kerry, why would it work here?
I love the "possibly even clearly identifiable" aspect. Interesting though, maybe the Commission hasn't really noticed the effect of the blogosphere yet, maybe thinking it an entirely American phenomenon. Team Europe by the way is a group of 630 experts employed by the Commission to spread the word - a sort of PR Praetorian Guard. Team Europe types and no doubt e-Team Europe look all the world like independents but are used at conferences when an independent but pro European voice. Ingenious.

The Co-rapporteur of this Commission document (see post below) himself practiced what he preached. For year Mr John Wyles was working as the Commission's propagandist in chief for the Euro. At the same time he wrote a regular column for a magazine called "Euro-impact". He described himself at this magazine as, "Written by Michael Rolfe, euro-impact's monthly 'Thinking about the euro' columnist on the political context of Economic and Monetary Union and introduction of the euro. This is an abridged version of the full column". Maybe his readers should have known? For that matter, with this as a precedence, who, today is a Commission official writing EU propaganda under an assumed nakme?