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…
Tag Archives: Jose Manuel Barroso
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…
Time, and Scotland and the EU
Oh here we go again. It seems the question of how an independent Scotland could work in the EU will never go away. Rather than focusing on the EU’s Nobel…
Tony Blair isn’t going to get any EU top job. Face it. Move on.
So the old master is back, working his rhetorical magic at a Business for New Europe / Chatham House event in London yesterday. The full text of his speech is…
Commissioners on Twitter: how are they doing?
The European Commission, and Commissioners themselves, have progressively taken to Twitter over the past couple of years as a way of communicating with (at?) EU citizens. So how are they…
Barroso Bullshit Bingo is back!
It creeps up on you with alarming regularity… is it really a year ago that we last played every EU nerd’s party game, Barroso Bullshit Bingo? Anyway in just 2…
So that was a Presidency Press Trip. I’m feeling rather empty.
At one level it has been a privilege to attend the Danish Presidency Press Trip for the past four days. I’m the first blogger ever to have been allowed to…
Barroso is not just ‘A senior EU official’ – he’s President of the European Commission
Have a read of this piece (see comments – link changed – a version is available here) on AP’s website about Barroso’s State of the European Union speech. It’s entitled “Top…
