North to Leith (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
So Tony Blair, like the old firm has been so often, is out of Europe before Christmas. You may recall that I have posted at some (painful) length that he stood no chance and so his people are backtracking and insisting that he was never really after the gig. Which in a manner of speaking is true. The job that Blair was being touted for, that of President of Europe, simply did not (and does not) exist....
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
DOES Peter Kilfoyle really want Jean-Claude Juncker, Paavo Lipponen, Herman Van Rompuy, Felipe Gonzales or Jan Peter Balkenende to be President of the European Council?
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The international media has jumped on a Sankei report about Hatoyama’s dislike of eating whale: “I hate whale meat,” Hatoyama said during a meeting with his visiting Dutch counterpart Jan Peter Balkenende on Monday at the prime minister’s office, the Sankei Shimbun reported. The Netherlands is one of several anti-whaling countries that allows the radical environmental group...
France24 (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has revealed he dislikes whale meat, a newspaper reported Saturday, in an unusual confession for the prime minister of a country that defies Western criticism of whaling. "I hate whale meat," Hatoyama said during a meeting with his visiting Dutch counterpart Jan Peter Balkenende on Monday at the prime minister's office, the Sankei Shimbun reported. The...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Amsterdam - Dutch Christian Democrats are getting ready for the possibility its party leader and current prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende might leave national politics to become the first president of the European Union, Dutch public broadcaster N...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Tony Blair's chances of becoming the EU's first president were fading tonight, says The Times , as opposition to the move grew across Europe and France and Germany failed to throw their weight behind him. Much as we would like it to happen, as it would give a "face" to our vassal status under the constitutional Lisbon treaty, the thought of that leering visage representing "Europe"...
North to Leith (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Strap in because this is a very long post... In my last post I said if you were lucky I’d tell you who I think will, and who I think should, get the job as President of the European Council. Well you lucky things here it is... From all the speculation as to who might get the post there are 22 riders who are considered contenders. Who? F/I Position Nation Bertie Ahern Former PM Ireland Jose-Maria...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
All you need to know about the man who would be president of the European Council Age: 56. Appearance: Two parts ambition to one part madness, wrapped in flesh. He's still alive? Yes, although he is now held together entirely by his all-consuming thirst for power. Which manifests itself how? He's got his eye on the job of president of the European Council. Got his eye on? He hasn't officially declared...
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
SINGAPORE: The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Dr Jan Peter Balkenende, said the economic relations between Asia and Europe have become much more significant in the past ten years.
The Dyda Dispatches (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Irish gambling firm Paddy Power has tipped Tony Blair to become the first EU president. The odds are as follows: Tony Blair 4/6 Jan Peter Balkenende 4/1 Jean-Claude Juncker 11/2 Anders Fogh Rasmussen 6/1 Jacques Chirac 33/1 Bertie Ahern 50/1 Silvio Berlusconi 100/1 No odds have been set on Vaclav Klaus ratifying the Lisbon Treaty.
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The main candidates for EU president include Tony Blair from the UK, Jan Peter Balkenende from the Netherlands, Paavo Lipponen from Finland and Felipe González from Spain
People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
The Netherlands on Saturday called upon Iran to comply with relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions and to contribute to the Mideast peace process and stability in the region. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende made the call during Saturday's session of the General Assembly general debate. "The Iranian nuclear issue represents a major challenge to international peace and security, to...
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
I love a good speech, don't you. I am so sick and tired of Obama's endless rant of vanity speeches, every day. Dear leader needs his daily fix of faux adulation ............... So it is refreshing times ten, when someone makes a speech that matters, that says something. And who else but our modern day Chruchill. Speech by Geert Wilders on the first day of the General Debate in the Dutch parliament...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
DUTCH PRIME minister Jan Peter Balkenende has emerged as a possible candidate for the post of European Council president, which will be created if the Lisbon Treaty enters into force.
JUDITH MILLER AND DR DAVID KELLY AND THE MISSING IRAQI... (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Report into Iraq war support delayed Wednesday 02 September 2009 A major parliamentary report into the Netherlands' support for the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 will not be completed by its November 1 deadline, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday. The chairman of the committee Willibrord Davis has told the prime minister and leaders of the two houses of parliaments the mountain of information gathered...
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lexecon | 02/11/2009
Ahhh, Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who has reignited this little Blogging War. Just as Charles Johnson continues to condemn the man, Robert Spencer has joined forces with Wilders in co-writing an article posted at National Review Online , Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs . Now where is that line between incitement and free speech? Certainly not visible from the above mentioned sites. Ahh, here it
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