Not at all. He is the one who is looking for consensus on the role of the Pope during the 1st 1000 years of The Church's history. +BXVI is nobody's fool and he clearly doesn't believe that he, or any of his successors, will receive the "submission" of the Eastern Patriarchs, though he can have at least some reason to believe that his position will have actual power to effectuate the functioning of his role as the primus inter pares among the bishops. Metropolitan Zizioulas' discussion of this represents the view of the Church of Constantinople and several others. It may now also represent the view of the Patriarchate of Moscow, though it certainly didn't a few years ago.
http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_9204_l3.htm?id=9204
I see your point,my friend.
Cardinal Ratzinger wrote the following before becoming Pope Benedict XVI
“Rome must not require more from the East with respect to the doctrine of primacy than what had been formulated and was lived in the first millennium . . . Rome need not ask for more. Reunion could take place in this context if, on the one hand, the East would cease to oppose as heretical the developments that took place in the West in the second millennium and would accept the Catholic Church as legitimate and orthodox in the form she had acquired in the course of that development, while, on the other hand, the West would recognize the Church of the East as orthodox and legitimate in the form she has always had.” Joseph Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology, San Francisco, Ignatius, 1987, p. 199.