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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
While it's great crack if you're an anorak, the frantic speculation about the top Euro jobs doesn't show off my old colleagues in the Westminster lobby at their best. Some are helping to keep Tony Blair’s candidacy for the presidency alive , others are floating David Miliband as “ foreign minister” while the Indy in Sunday thinks it sees a dark plot in it all to make Mandy the Labour...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
All you need to know about the man who would be president of the European Council Age: 56. Appearance: Two parts ambition to one part madness, wrapped in flesh. He's still alive? Yes, although he is now held together entirely by his all-consuming thirst for power. Which manifests itself how? He's got his eye on the job of president of the European Council. Got his eye on? He hasn't officially declared...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Brown assigns senior officials to help secure top Europe role for former PM Gordon Brown has asked two of his most senior civil servants to lobby discreetly within Europe for Tony Blair to become its new president amid warnings from allies in government that the former prime minister will lose his chance unless he launches a dynamic campaign. John Cunliffe, the prime minister's most senior Europe...
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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...
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Aberavon & Neath Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Reacting to an op-ed in the Wall Street journal, Liberal International (to which UK Liberal Democrats are affiliated) Deputy President Hans van Baalen MEP has defended ALDE leader Guy Verhofstadt against accusations of being a “ideological European federalist who wants to impose heavy European taxes on [citizens] and who wants Europe to become a super state”. Van Baalen states that the...
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Euractive (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the Liberal group in the European Parliament, has thrown his weight behind José Manuel Barroso's bid for a second term at the head of the European Commission. The Greens, meanwhile, continue to firmly oppose the former Portuguese prime minister.
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Jon Worth (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
European Citizen has an interesting and thoughful post about why Guy Verhofstadt’s statement that “The three largest groups in the European Parliament announced today their commitment to pro-European values” is essentially the wrong approach. European Citizen’s critique is not too far away from my own analysis of the travails of the left, that essentially some [...]
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 22/07/2009
Guy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian prime minister, has attacked policies set out by José Manuel Barroso, who is running to keep his post as European Commission presidentGuy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian prime minister, says what Brussels needs is a young Jacques Delors, the former president who pushed the birth of the euro and the single market
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The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
From Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, slap down o' the day : "Daniel Cohn-Bendit....Barroso, he says, is Europe's Frühstücksdirektor : someone you can trust with organising breakfast, but little more". And, from the same place, the bed that our own dear Lib Dems have climbed into: "Guy Verhofstadt, the former prime minister of Belgium and the new leader of the liberal group in...
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Colin Ross News Stories (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009
The European Parliament met yesterday for the first time since the elections, I was saving this post and embargoed it until today.
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Euractive (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009
Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the European Parliament's Liberal group, has sent a list of demands to Commission President José Manuel Barroso in return for his group's support for nominating the Portuguese for a second term at the EU executive's helm. The Socialists did likewise on Monday.
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EPP ED (Free subscription) | 14/07/2009
Stressing their common commitment to strong pro-European values, and willing to guarantee the stability of the European Parliament as the deepest expression of European democracy and integration, they have agreed that the European Parliament shall be chaired by Jerzy Buzek from the EPP Group for the first half of the 2009-2014 legislature, and by a Member appointed by the S&D Group for the second...
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Euractive (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
The leader of the Liberal group Guy Verhofstadt told EurActiv that today's (9 July) decision by EU heads of state and government to officially back José Manuel Barroso for a second term as Commission president "doesn't change anything".
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
European commission head must wait at least two months to learn whether he will serve another five years It was not the most promising start to Fredrik Reinfeldt's six months at the helm of the EU. Last Wednesday, in Stockholm's splendid, redbrick town hall, Sweden's centre-right prime minister launched his presidency. He stood alongside José Manuel Barroso and declared he wanted the Portuguese...
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
Lib Dem blogger Jonathan Fryer has the details (with apologies for LDV’s belatedness): The ALDE (Liberal) Group in the new European Parliament has chosen the Flemish Liberal and former Prime Minister of Belgium, Guy Verhofstadt, to be its new leader. He takes over from the British (South West England) Liberal Democrat MEP Graham Watson, who has [...]
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