Jose Manuel Barroso
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Jon on
February 17, 2010
Bit of genius from Danny the Red Green:
Dany Cohn-Bendit-Investiture de la Commission Barroso IIenvoyé par EurodeputesEE. – Regardez les dernières vidéos d’actu.
Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog
| Tagged Daniel Cohn Bendit, European Parliament, Jose Manuel Barroso
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Jon on
November 19, 2009
I try to see the positives where I can, but I am really struggling this evening. Who actually wanted Barroso, Van Rompuy and Ashton to be running the European Union? It all strikes me as the lowest common denominator of the worst sort. As @kosmopolit pointed out on Twitter, the three of them – together with EP [...]
Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog, UK Politics
| Tagged Baroness Ashton, David Miliband, Herman Van Rompuy, Jose Manuel Barroso, Pascal Lamy, Vaira Vike Freiberga
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Jon on
November 19, 2009
Rumours are reaching me via Twitter that Baroness Ashton, UK Labour politician and outgoing Commissioner for Trade is the individual the socialists are now backing to be the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Policy. I must say I am astounded.
Let me at least set the record straight about what I think about Ashton. I was not [...]
Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog, UK Politics
| Tagged Baroness Ashton, Cathy Ashton, Herman Van Rompuy, High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, President of the European Council
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Jon on
September 7, 2009
There’s an interesting article in Le Monde today speculating once more about a role for François Fillon as a possible candidate for the Presidency of the Commission. The story goes broadly like this:
José Manuel Barroso secured the nomination of the Heads of State and Government in July
Approval of Barroso in the European Parliament next week in Strasbourg [...]
Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog
| Tagged European Commission, European Parliament, François Fillon, Jose Manuel Barroso
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Jon on
September 5, 2009
The EP elections, the five year democratic interruption to the Brussels game, are long in the past. Everyone is back from their summer holidays, ready for a bout of jousting and positioning in that depressing and opaque game: how to put together a team of 27 Commissioners.
The nomination of José Manuel Barroso as President of the [...]
Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog
| Tagged Alfred Gusenbauer, ECR, European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, Michal Kaminski, Werner Faymann
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By
Jon on
July 31, 2009
OK, here we go again. Open Europe having a further whine at something going on in Brussels, this time the amount of money the European Union spends on ‘propaganda’. Also not a surprise is the choice of EUObserver to carry a column from Open Europe’s Lorraine Mullally, and in Sweden Timbro is apparently trying to [...]
Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog
| Tagged EU Communications, Jose Manuel Barroso, Margot Wallström, Open Europe
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By
Jon on
June 15, 2009
As an alumnus of the College of Europe in Bruges I periodically get e-mails on the student e-mail lists. This one has recently reached me:
Dear Alumni,
Following the recent elections for the European Parliament, the nomination of the Commission’s President is now on the European Agenda.
The European Movement (www.europeanmovement.eu) has launched a petition supporting the re-appointment of the President [...]
Posted in Euroblog
| Tagged Anyone But Barroso, European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso
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By
Jon on
June 10, 2009
Before the EP elections I wrote a post expressing my exasperation at the PES when they stated they had a nominee for Commission President but would not state the name of that individual. Now Euractiv is reporting that there could be an alliance of the PES, Greens and ALDE to push the nomination of former [...]
Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog, UK Politics
| Tagged European Commission, Guy Verhofstadt, Jose Manuel Barroso
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