The European Union is a constantly evolving economic and political organisation whose entirely novel characteristics have caused considerable debate as to its legal nature. Its complex institutional structure and decision-making methods mean that it cannot be classified in any particular category of international organisation. Applying a combination of coordination and the sharing of governmental powers, the Union is nothing like a traditional organisation or a federal state and therefore remains a ‘new political form’, in the words of Jean Monnet, or, as Jacques Delors put it, an ‘unidentified political object’. Most EU institutions were created with the establishment of the European Community in 1958. Much change since then has been in the context of shifting the balance of power away from the Council and towards the Parliament. The role of the Commission has often been to mediate between the two or tip the balance. However, the Commission is becoming more accountable to the Parliament: in 1999 it forced the resignation of the Santer Commission and forced a reshuffle of the proposed Barroso Commission in 2004. The development of the institutions, with incremental changes from treaties and agreements, is testament to the evolution of the Union's structures without one clear "master plan". Some such as Tom Reid of the Washington Post said of the institutions that "nobody would have deliberately designed a government as complex and as redundant as the EU". The EU system enables member states to work together in pursuit of commonly agreed goals. It brings together EU and national institutions in a system that was partly designed and that has partly been improvised over time.