Gates of Vienna (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the video below, Nigel Farage, a member of the European Parliament for UKIP, ventures a spirited opinion about the European Union’s new president, Herman Van Rompuy, and its foreign minister, Baroness Catherine Ashton. His uncompromising manner of expressing himself earns a reprimand from Jerzy Buzek, the President of the European Parliament: Hat tip: Vlad Tepes . [Post ends here]
National Secular Society (Free subscription) | yesterday
Writing in the Independent , Dominic Lawson berates the NSS and others who are asking questions about the religious motivations that animate the new president of the European Council, Mr Herman Van Rompuy (HVR for short).
M E N O R A H (Free subscription) | yesterday
Proclaims G20, Copenhagen climate summit steps toward 1-world government In accepting his appointment to be the first permanent president of the European Council in the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy affirmed his belief that the new world order would be...
The Economist (Free subscription) | yesterday
How the European Union's horse-trading over top jobs reflects murky coalition-building EUROPE, it is said, must resist the temptation to become a giant Switzerland: ie, a smug, rich, insular place. But judging by the antics of European leaders as they filled two top European Union jobs on November 19th, the club faces another danger altogether: becoming a giant Belgium. Lots of European countries...
The Economist (Free subscription) | yesterday
The European Union’s choices for its new top jobs reveal a pitiful lack of global ambition THE Roman poet Horace might have been summing up today’s European Union when he wrote that “the mountains will be in labour, and will give birth to a ridiculous mouse.” By choosing two virtual unknowns, with paltry political experience, as the first permanent president of the European...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The polarising former premier, loathed for pushing for more regional autonomy, has replaced Herman Van Rompuy as prime minister of Belgium
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Former Belgian prime minister and current Foreign Minister Yves Leterme would return to the top post on Wednesday, departing Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy told media Tuesday. "Yves Leterme has been given a second chance now, he has got all the elements to prove he is a good prime minister," Van Rompuy told RTL TVI. "I hope he will succeed for him and for Belgium," said Van Rompuy,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The holders of the new top jobs can perfectly represent a Europe that does not dare to project its values as a continent Tintin and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle would command more respect on the world stage." This comment in a reader's letter to another newspaper is no doubt horribly unfair – but the appointment of Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton to the EU's new top jobs is very disappointing. Of...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Belgium named controversial Dutch-speaking conservative Yves Leterme for a second term as prime minister to replace Herman Van Rompuy, who resigned to take up his job as the European Union's first president.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The Christian Democrat Yves Leterme was nominated on Wednesday to replace Herman Van Rompuy, who has been appointed the first president of the European Union.
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Less than a year after he stepped down amid a banking scandal, Yves Leterme became Belgium's prime minister for the second time on Wednesday. Leterme, a Flemish Christian Democrat who is currently foreign minister, was named by King Albert II after the sudden departure of Herman Van Rompuy last week to become the first European Union president. The 49-year-old Leterme has already failed twice to resolve...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Brussels - King Albert of Belgium appointed Yves Leterme as the country's prime minister for a second time Wednesday following the resignations of Herman Van Rompuy, who is to become European Union president. The king has accepted the resignation of...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Yves Leterme is to take up the mantle of Belgian prime minister for the second time after Herman Van Rompuy left the post to become the European Union's first president
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The Christian Democrat Yves Leterme was nominated on Wednesday to replace Herman Van Rompuy, who has been appointed the first president of the European Union.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Brussels - King Albert of Belgium was to appoint Yves Leterme as the country's prime minister for a second time Wednesday following the departure of incumbent Herman Van Rompuy, who is to become European Union president. Political commentators said V...
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