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Tony Blair’s ambition to become Europe’s first president have been set back by stiffening opposition from Sweden and Spain, the two countries chairing the EU for the next year.
Senior officials in Stockholm, which assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the EU today, said they feared a President Blair would be a divisive figure, triggering friction between small and large European countries, and added that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, was even more strongly opposed to Blair securing the post and usurping Madrid’s running of the union next year.
The decision to appoint a new sitting European president, for a maximum of five years, is to be taken before the end of the year if Ireland votes yes in October in a referendum on the Lisbon treaty streamlining the way the EU is run and also creating the new post.
European governments had to decide whether the post ought to be turned into “a strong leader for Europe” or whether the president’s role should be limited to chairing EU summits and “not putting the [European] commission president in the shadow,” said the Swedish prime minister.
It was clear he preferred the latter role, a lower profile and less influential function that would probably be less attractive to Blair…
The Briton’s main assets, however, are name and brand recognition, international contacts, and the absence, so far, of any serious rival for the post.
Nothing useful to a politician trying to achieve anything other than personal gain.
Who really cares?
Since the EU couldn’t adopt a common constitution, the President of the EU has become just a figurehead with no real power.
quelle surprise…
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…to be know here after as “King Anthony the 1st”.
Great job if you can get it!
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“In other words, nothing concrete.”
Sounds like the perfect qualification for the EU presidency which is nothing concrete.
Being Bush’s bitch is not quite the resume that would make that likely.
Everything Bush touched is pretty much worthless.
If in exchange Britain agrees not to join the EU.
Forget Obama, now there’s your anti-christ!
So they have a European Commission President already, and now they might want a European Union President. And they also have a European Parliament, along with more politicians. Plus all the individual countries’ MPs and Presidents and Prime Ministers.
Anyone think they’ve got too many politicians in Europe?
OTOH, eventually everyone in Europe will be an elected official in the EU, so its jobs for everyone and direct-democracy in action!! (Just like the Imperial Senate.)
Whoever gets the job should wear one of them Hitler mustaches, just for the hell of it.
That photo should be photoshopped with a Napoleon uniform.
first you screw up Great Britain (with the help of Gordon Brown, finance expert). then you retire with a fat pension and a lot other fat incomes. and then you want to screw up Europe! and maybe after, after…the WORLD! PMs should be made to sign a document when they leave office to enjoy their retirement and leave everybody else alone!
No thanks.
Winston Churchill’s dream of The United States of Europe, part of the Globalist agenda for a One World Government/NWO, moves one step closer to reality.
The picture is taken from the press conference where Tony Blair revealed the length of the donkey schlong he had to take in order to become a catholic.
While it seems almost all politicians are whores, Tony Blair takes the cake and barfs on it. He can’t sell his soul fast enough.
And the E.U. bureaucracy grows larger by the second. My gawd – they regulated the curve on a banana! Let’s hope the Irish stick to their guns.
Pundits (globalists) have started referring to Europe as a country. Watch for it.
Richard Branson, for E-Prez!
Bliar blew his last bit of trustworthiness with his conversion to Catholicism, which formally took place shortly after he left office, but which actually took place years earlier. It certainly cast his Middle East Crusade in a new light, eh?
What do they get out of it? Some money but it’s mainly ego. He’s already been PM. This is about his only hope of going higher if it is higher.
King Anthony (the 1st), practicing for his first SubWay commercial…..gets feet and meters confused.
After dragging Britain into an unnecessary, illegal, immoral war, just imagine what he could do for Europe if he were really to try.