I don't buy it personally, but if you are actually letting the Annoying Orange bully you, you are frickin' cowards to say the least. If so, suck it up buttercups; people in the EU don't need wimps in charge. But conveniently, the article provides no proof that this is the actual reason.
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
"Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."