Candidates for President of the European Council
The European Council elects its President by a qualified majority for a term of two and a half years, renewable once. This means that Herman Van Rompuy, the current incumbent,…
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Candidates for High Rep for EU Foreign Policy
The High Rep is appointed by the European Council, acting by qualified majority. However as the person is also a Vice President of the European Commission, their nomination has to…
Best of the rest – candidates for President of the European Commission
Following my previous posts about likely EPP and PES candidates for President of the European Commission, what about other candidates not from either of the main political forces? With no…
EPP candidates for Commission President
In a previous post I analysed the likely candidates from the centre left PES for Commission President. Here I examine who the centre right EPP might put forward. It is…
Denmark’s possible EU Patent Court referendum – an opportunity?
[Please note: this is not a piece about referendums in general, and nor does it call into question my overall position as a referendum-sceptic. It relates to a very specific Danish...
Barroso’s promise of a federal Europe is an insult. The post the College of Europe doesn’t want the Commission to see?
So someone had the temerity to criticise the über-Eurocrat Barroso on the blog of the Eurocrat school! And then the blog post was removed, without explanation, as pointed out by…
FreeMovement.net – mapping breaches of Schengen
As any regular reader of this blog knows, non-Schengen compliant border controls (and my documentation of them) have been a regular topic in the last few months. I’ve been checked…
PES candidates for Commission President
Every five years Brussels has a bout of political intrigue. It is the time when a new European Parliament is elected, and connected to that, a new team of European…
