Not much about buttiglione.
It is a typical example of the kind of mind frames democratic people need to feel morally superior and to give concrete examples of all their achievements relative to the individual.
All the european parliament were cheering up at the way they defeated that ugly monster whose ideas wouldnt have stood long in many non democratic countries, free for the dictatorial regimes established by democracies.
The attack was awckard since he targeted everyone by calling all those who dont share his points of view wimps and so.
All that said, that was clear that a guy like this could not have made his way up or kept a position by peppering up everything moving. I'm not even sure he could have managed with that speech in a muslim dictatorial country since he targeted everyone save himself and a few elected ones.

On the other hand, again, it seems to appear like a cheap victory like a decoy by democratic european people to hide they are seriously lacking on much more serious matters where their democratic achievements should really show, in comparison with all other regimes.