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The Cult of the Dead Fish (Free subscription) | yesterday
Faced with a choice for its new president between the traffic-stopping Tony Blair and a capable but little-known Belgian, the EU's 27 leaders settled on Herman Van Rompuy, a man who would scarcely stop two mothers with strollers outside his own country. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who was in charge of the election process, gave the game away when he said that Van Rompuy was a man whose...
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Reputation, Reputation, Reputation (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2737974/Blair-loses-EU-president-job-to-Rompuy.html So, Tony Blair hasn't been chosen as first EU President and the job has gone to the Belgian Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy. Although the former PM hadn't officially thrown his hat into the ring, he had clearly given serious thought to the role. The news that he has been 'overlooked' is welcome, as his profile...
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John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
"Never in a month of Sontags." The definitive account by Eric Joyce (right), the Labour MP who was Tony Blair's representative at the Party of European Socialists - the EU grouping of left-of-centre parties: It was led then, as now, by former Danish PM Poul-Nyrup Rasmussen. There’s been some kind of law passed in Denmark requiring every Danish PM to be called Rasmussen (they’re...
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post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Representatives of the 27 countries of the European Union chose respected but low-profile leaders Thursday as president of the European Council and chief foreign minister. Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy will become president, while the foreign affairs and security head will be Catherine Ashton, a British baroness who is currently EU trade commissioner. They begin their new duties Jan. 1....
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Andy Peacock (Free subscription) | yesterday
Labour peer Baroness Ashton has been selected as the EU’s high representative of foreign affairs and security, diplomats say. Baroness Ashton, currently EU Trade Commissioner, was chosen for the new post by the leaders of the EU’s 27 member states at a meeting in Brussels. Gordon Brown backed her for the role after accepting Tony Blair could not become European Council president. Before...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Do I detect a certain regret that Tony Blair failed in his bid to become president of the European council ( Comment , Leaders , 20 November)? Is there a single person left in this country who does not share in the shame of the deceit over Iraq? Anthony Marrian London • It is a major missed opportunity for the future prosperity, and indeed safety, of Europe that Tony Blair has been deemed too...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gordon Brown rejected advice from Lord Mandelson to seek one of the big economic posts in the European Commission for Britain once it was clear that Tony Blair could not succeed in becoming Europe’s first president, The Times has learnt. Instead he settled for the post of EU High Representative for Baroness Ashton of Upholland.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German chancellor Angela Merkel, according to senior Whitehall sources. To the dismay of key ministers, who wanted Brown to push for Britain to take an economic portfolio in the European commission once Blair's hopes were dashed, Brown insisted...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pay no attention to the Eurosceptics. Cathy Ashton's posting as EU 'foreign secretary' is a major post-Lisbon development The chorus of ill-informed and patronising calls of "Who?" that have greeted the appointments of the Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy , as the new long-term president (really chairman) of the European Council, and Baroness Cathy Ashton, as the new EU foreign...
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The Appalling Strangeness (Free subscription) | yesterday
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh out loud and do a little dance of joy at this : Gordon Brown has accepted that prime minister Tony Blair cannot become the first President of the European Council, Downing Street has said. Good to see that once again the "support" of Gordon Brown has once again acted as a curse rather than a blessing.
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SUBROSA (Free subscription) | yesterday
On the left is Herman Van Rompuy the new President of the EU and the right, puckering up, is Baroness Ashton, Europe's first 'foreign secretary'. Herman Van Rompuy is the Belgian prime minister who favours the introduction of EU-wide taxes and the abolition of national flags and anthems. He had been hot favourite to win the job since Tony Blair's bid crumbled in recent days. Lady Ashton, who only...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
British peer says she will show she is the best person for the job of European foreign minister over the next few months and years Europe's eight-year quest to establish a simpler and more democratic regime came to a dramatic climax last night when the Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, and British peer Cathy Ashton were appointed as the two top officials embodying the new system. In a surprise...
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David Peter (Free subscription) | yesterday
The appointments of Herman van Rompuy as the first President of the European Council and Baroness Ashton as the Council’s High Representative are the outcome of a blatantly flawed process. It is quite clear from that once the stitch up between the dominant blocs in European politics had been agreed whereby a candidate from the Right would get the President’s job and a candidate from the...
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Rhod on Public Affairs (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
EU leaders have chosen the Belgian Prime Minister, Herman van Rompuy, to be the first permanent European Council President . The other top job created by the Lisbon Treaty - foreign affairs supremo - will go to the EU Trade Commissioner, Baroness Catherine Ashton from the UK. Both are seen as low-key consensual politicians. Earlier, the UK government said it was no longer pushing for former PM Tony...
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Time (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Eschewing the superstar candidacy of Tony Blair, the E.U. picks low-profile politicians as its first president and foreign minister
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somuroy007 | 12/12/2008
Kim Cattrall will seduce the British Prime Minister in new movie "The Ghost." The 52-year-old actress will play Amelia, the sexy secretary of fictional U.K. leader Adam Lang, who is based on former real PM Tony Blair, portrayed by Pierce Brosnan . Read Full Story
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