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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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- Is Germany doing enough to save the euro? - 13/12/2011Debate at King’s College London, on 12 December 2011, on the subject of “Germany has not taken enough proactive steps to solve the eurozone crisis, despite being at the top...
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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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president of the European Council Archive
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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... -
A president for Europe (still)
Posted on 19/11/2009 | 3 CommentsThe BBC appears to have taken some kind of corporate decision to refer to the post of president of the European Council as “president of Europe” or “president of the EU”. (Here, for example.) Sometimes, when they’ve got the space, they use the proper term,... -
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... -
Blair vs Juncker for president of the European Council
Posted on 28/10/2009 | 4 CommentsHistorian Simon Schama has a marvellous knack of explaining the big themes of history through the life stories of selected individuals. For example, in his “History of Britain”, he describes the peak and decline of the British empire using the contrasting stories of Winston Churchill... -
Unwise speculation
Posted on 05/08/2009 | No CommentsFormer European Commissioner and Conservative party chairman Chris Patten was asked by the Financial Times this morning whether he was interested in the post of High Representative for Foreign Affairs, to be established by the Lisbon treaty, should that treaty come into force. “I’m not... -
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... -
A president for Europe
Posted on 05/04/2008 | 4 CommentsA campaign has been launched to merge the post of president of the European Commission with the new post of president of the European Council created under the Lisbon treaty. The argument is that the Commission president is more legitimate but the European Council president... -
President Blair?
Posted on 09/02/2008 | 7 CommentsThe news is full at the moment of speculation about whether Tony Blair might be a suitable candidate to be president of the European Council. The post doesn’t exist yet, but will be created by the Lisbon treaty, and thoughts are racing ahead. This blog... -
Blair for president?
Posted on 05/12/2007 | No CommentsI was asked yesterday about whether Tony Blair might be a suitable candidate to become the first ever elected president of the European Council. The post is created in the Reform Treaty and so will be ready to be filled in 2009. I must confess...
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