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- Solving the financial crisis – who pays? - 22/12/2011Federal Union and the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust held a discussion on 10 November 2011 about the current financial crisis in the light of the ethics and vision of the...
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- The lady in the lake - 03/02/2012Taking a break from thinking about the future of the eurozone or the prospects for a UN Parliamentary Assembly, I took a trip to 1940s California in the company of...
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Tony Blair: Europe needs a leader
Posted on 10/06/2011 | 2 CommentsThis website has long been advocating the view that the European Union needs effective and accountable leadership, most notably during the debates surrounding the European Convention in 2003 that led to the constitutional treaty (and subsequently the Lisbon treaty). See Europe needs an accountable president... -
Who’s in charge?
Posted on 07/09/2010 | 1 CommentThere is a delightful power struggle going on within the EU institutions. The twin presidents of the European Commission and European Council are tussling for the role of leader of the EU. (We foresaw this in our paper to the European Convention back in March... -
The wrong campaign for president
Posted on 29/10/2009 | No CommentsThe Financial Times today carries an article by Paavo Lipponen, former prime minister of Finland, outlining his view of what the role of president of the European Council entails. (Read it here.) Another candidate launch, in other words, to join those of Mr Blair and... -
Re-election of Barroso reveals old flaws
Posted on 18/09/2009 | No CommentsA vote by the European Parliament earlier this week confirmed José Manuel Barroso in office for another term as president of the European Commission. Mr Barroso had been more or less openly campaigning for this result for the past year, so he can look back... -
Barroso deserves to be re-elected
Posted on 14/09/2009 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming EUOBSERVER / COMMENT – If all goes according to schedule, Jose Manuel Barroso will be confirmed in office this week for a second term as president of the European Commission. He has been nominated by the European Council, representing the heads of... -
Blair for the Commission?
Posted on 22/07/2009 | 1 CommentSometimes the simplest questions are the best ones. I was asked last week, in response to some newspaper suggestions that Tony Blair was being talked about as a possible president of the European Council (a post created by the Lisbon treaty should it come into... -
The European federalists must intensify their actions
Posted on 02/07/2009 | No CommentsBy Michele Ciavarini Azzi, President UEF-Belgium A lot has been said and written on the results of the European elections. However, the election campaigns appear to have offered no real explanation to citizens on the important European issues. With a few exceptions, there was little or... -
The Socialists should oppose the nomination of Barroso
Posted on 30/06/2009 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 30 June 2009 Commission president José Manuel Barroso’s campaign for re-election cleared its latest hurdle at the end of presidency European Council meeting earlier this month. Mr Barroso was unanimously, if provisionally, nominated by the assembled heads of state and... -
Silence speaks louder than words
Posted on 16/04/2009 | No CommentsFormer prime minister of Belgium Guy Verhofstat spoke at the launch of the Liberal campaign for the European elections yesterday. (Read a report on the launch here.) Euractiv reports him as attacking members of the Socialist and Christian Democrat parties as “silent Eurosceptics”. He is... -
Time is running out for a socialist candidate
Posted on 09/04/2009 | 1 CommentAt the campaign launch for the socialist European election manifesto in Brussels on 11 February, PES leader Poul Nyrup Rasmussen was pressed on whether there would be a socialist candidate for president of the European Commission. Current president Jose Manuel Barroso is clearly seeking re-election....
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