The Dyda Dispatches (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Who will be EU president? Ladbrokes has Belgian premier and Gollum lookalike Herman Van Rompuy as favourite. Looking at Ladbrokes' list of 25 contenders , nearly half of them already have jobs one would have thought of as being too important to cast aside in order to become chairman of the EU Council. Three of the four favourites are currently heads of national governments. Evidently being Prime Minister...
The Cult of the Dead Fish (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Published: Tuesday 29 September 2009 Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende is conducting a "very subtle" lobbying campaign in Brussels to be considered a candidate for the job of EU Council president, according to sources, who forecast that should the Lisbon Treaty enter into force, he will be strongly backed by Angela Merkel. ( EurActive.com ) Why not Blair? Mr Blair’s problem...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Wolfgang Schüssel for President of the European Council? Ken Clarke certainly thought so on Any Questions , and while it is Michael Heseltine who is the European Commission's place man in Britain (the key to understanding the hysterical hostility that has been whipped up towards the only person to become Prime Minister since 1990 without first having been anointed by Heseltine), Clarke is nevertheless...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Tony Blair's chances of becoming the EU's first president were fading tonight, says The Times , as opposition to the move grew across Europe and France and Germany failed to throw their weight behind him. Much as we would like it to happen, as it would give a "face" to our vassal status under the constitutional Lisbon treaty, the thought of that leering visage representing "Europe"...
North to Leith (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Strap in because this is a very long post... In my last post I said if you were lucky I’d tell you who I think will, and who I think should, get the job as President of the European Council. Well you lucky things here it is... From all the speculation as to who might get the post there are 22 riders who are considered contenders. Who? F/I Position Nation Bertie Ahern Former PM Ireland Jose-Maria...
Daily Referendum (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
From William Hill: TONY BLAIR FAVOURITE TO BE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL BOOKMAKERS William Hill have installed Tony Blair as clear 6/4 favourite to become the next President of the European Council. 'Mr Blair is the clear front-runner to land the post of President of the European Council, and he has been by far the best backed contender so far' said Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe. William...
Le Monde diplomatique (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Ina Marčiulionyte., Lithuanian ambassador to Unesco; Irina Gueorguieva Bokova, Bulgarian ambassador to Unesco; Ivonne Juez de A Baki, a former Ecuadorian ambassador to the US and a friend of Hillary Clinton; Benita Ferrero-Waldner, nominated by Austria and Colombia and supported by the EU, of which she is commissioner for external relations. (She was foreign minister under Wolfgang Schüssel's...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
The Austrian president Heinz Fischer - a social democrat - called him a “politician of great talent” who “aroused enthusiasm but also strong criticism. Austrian politicians are good at dancing around their country’s affinity for Nazism. According to former Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, Austria was “Hitler’s first victim“. Here’s Karl Pfeifer on Haider....
Euractive (Free subscription) | 20/11/2007
The current system of EU revenues is opaque, complicated and unfair, and thus needs to be changed, according to former Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, writing in .Spotlight Europe
Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 18/10/2007
A friend has sent me to Debbie Schussel's tirade on a pending Laura Bush junket in the Middle East. I agree completely about the idiocy of promoting “beast cancer awareness” among people who murder uppity girls. This “outreach” reeks of Karen Hughes. But let's not pretend that Democrats would defend human liberty or the dignity [...]
Infidels Are Cool (Free subscription) | 17/10/2007
Now this is how you blogroll! I noticed this and immediately had to link to them since this is very creative and a great way to get noticed. Thanks to the “Little Concrete Piranhas” for the nice work… We have been PC for awhile now and we have tried to get people to open their eyes [...]
eWeek (Free subscription) | 29/09/2007
Opinion: Slow progress toward a solution should not discourage us from working to stop spam.
Haaretz.com (Free subscription) | 06/09/2007
Nobody in Austria believed that he had it in him. That he had what it takes to be a national leader. That he had a chance to realize the long-term ambition of his life - to become the chancellor. ...
Furdlog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2007
And I get a demonstration of why we have to be careful, even when we agree about why copyright matters: Control of Dances Is at Issue in Lawsuit Choreographers associated with the New Dance Group, an activist-minded crucible of modern dance that flourished in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, based works on Woody Guthrie’s songs, the [...]
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