Image via Wikipedia There was an article in last night’s Evening Echo (Not online) that basically suggested that it is a two horse race for the Irish Nomination to the new EU Commission in the Autumn. They are tipping Pat Cox or John Bruton to be the nominatee. The rationale behind this is that they are both heavy hitters. Cox is a previous leader of the ALDE Group of the Parliament as well as being a former President of...
Image via Wikipedia The newly elected Parliament looks set to become deadlocked over the nomination of the next European Commission President. Jose Manual Barrosso has the backing of the EPP, and thats about it. The new European Conservative grouping could be persuaded to back him too. I doubt they could persuade Ind/Dem to back him publicly but they may vote for him. The other candidate Guy Verhofstadt has the backing of GUE/NGL, Greens-EFA, PES ASDE and ALDE. Unfortunatley neither...
Image via Wikipedia So the new European Parliament is going to be a bit of an Alphabet soup. According to The Lobby blog the Party of European Socialist Grouping in the Parliament is going to change its name to the “Alliance of Socialists and Democrats” or ASDE for short (Not to be confused with ASDA). So why the change? The name change is to suit the Italian Partito Democratico who in the last parliament where split between PES and...
Image via Wikipedia The above is according to Elmar Brok MEP (CDU/EPP). This because today the Czech Senate today approved the Treaty of Lisbon, leaving Ireland as the only EU member state not to have passed it. From the press release: “Now the Lisbon treaty lies in the hands of Ireland , because there is no alternative to the Lisbon treaty. The people in Ireland have made it clear that they want the European Union to be more democratic,...
I’ve given up on counting my posts on ThinkAboutit was it was just getting confusing, and will be vey strange coming up towards the elections. But anyway the latest post is on Tory MEP Christopher Beazley joining the EPP. Give it and read and please rate it! I found out about the story from @NEurope
So there has been a bit about Merkel’s trip to Dublin for the EPP meeting co-chaired by Enda Kenny and President of the EPP, Wilfried Martens. So who else was there? The Minister of Belgium, Yves Leterme was there along with the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister of Malta, Tonio Borg. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radek Sikorski, Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece, Yannis Valinakis, Minister of the Czech Republic, Cyril Svoboda, and Foreign Affairs...
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