Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
After a byzantine Brussels stitch-up, the appointment to one of the grandest jobs in the European Union was settled by text message. Early on Thursday evening Baroness Ashton, an obscure Labour quangocrat, received a text message from her mentor, Jose Manuel Barroso, the chairman of the European commission.
GayandRight (Free subscription) | yesterday
Who needs history anyways'?? The latest initiative by our "Children's Secretary", Ed Balls, is to abolish what remains of fact-based teaching of history and geography in our schools. He plans to "roll them together into themed lessons on social issues such as global warming" (funny how that seems to seep into everything nowadays). The ruthless drive of educational progressives to...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
"The choice of two low-profile leaders means that there are two immediate political winners from the process. The first is the European commission, under its renominated president José Manuel Barroso, who has emerged as at least the first among equals in the new Brussels lineup ... ". You have to read quite far down the piece, but at least its there, in The Guardian - the first (and...
Andy Peacock (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
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...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Lady Ashton is apparently a perfectly personable woman, but she was only chosen because she ticked the right boxes If someone held the patent for the word "nice" they would make a fortune today: the only thing anyone can find to say about Lady Ashton is that she's nice . Sometimes she's just nice, other times she's nice in comparison to Lord Mandelson, her predecessor as EU trade commissioner....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
&$ &$Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, holds a Rubick's cube showing pictures of newly-appointed EU President Herman Van Rompuy of Belgium (L-R), European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and newly-appointed EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton of Britain at the end of an extraordinary summit in Brussels November 19, 2009....
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
&$ &$Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (C), whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, holds a Rubick's cube showing the pictures of newly-appointed EU President Herman Van Rompuy (L) of Belgium and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (R) at the end of an extraordinary summit in Brussels November 19, 2009. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso's picture is also...
Nick Robinson's Newslog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
So Britain has got one of the top two EU jobs, and arguably the more important one. Cathy Ashton is a warm, likeable natural coalition builder who appealed to the European left as one of their own - and was acceptable to the right as the EU Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso had learnt he could do business with her. It is an extraordinary rise for someone who has never run for elected office,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Europe's eight-year quest to establish a simpler and more democratic regime came to a dramatic climaxtonight when the Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, and Britain's Cathy Ashton, were appointed as the two top officials embodying the new system. In a surprise move that saw Gordon Brown abandon his campaign to have Tony Blair made first president of the European Council, Lady Ashton, the current...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Gordon Brown abandons support for Blair as leaders of the EU's dominant centre-right bloc make clear they will only support a member of their own grouping Tony Blair tonight bowed out of the race to become the first president of the European Council when it became clear that centre-right leaders, who dominate the EU, are determined that the post should go to their group. Gordon Brown abandoned his...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
&$ &$European Commison President Jose Manuel Barroso (L), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (C) and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrick Reinfeldt attend a news conference after a one-day EU-Russia summit in Stockholm, capital of Sweden, Nov. 18, 2009. EU-Russian cooperation in climate and energy fields will be further intensified, the leaders from the EU and Russia said after the summit on Wednesday....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From Tony Blair to Herman Van Rompuy, the contenders for top European jobs are overwhelmingly male Right now in Brussels the heads of the 27 national governments of the European Union's member states will be milling around . Gordon Brown will be lobbying for Tony Blair, Herman Van Rompuy will be trying to persuade people he is not as anonymous as many fear, and José Manuel Barroso will be pottering...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said the European Union backs Russia’s plans to join the World Trade Organization. We clearly show our support for Russia’s accession to the WTO, Barroso said at a press conference following a Russia-EU summit. Barroso said that Russia’s entry into the global trade club would have a positive effect for [...]
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
&$ &$European Commison President Jose Manuel Barroso (L), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (C) and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrick Reinfeldt attend a news conference after a one-day EU-Russia summit in Stockholm, capital of Sweden, Nov. 18, 2009. EU-Russian cooperation in climate and energy fields will be further intensified, the leaders from the EU and Russia said after the summit on Wednesday....
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xtoff | 03/16/2009
A delegation of Europe + Foundation, led by former French Prime Minister, and French Senator Jean-Pierre Raffarin presented to Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, its working papers on how to strengthen the European market’s attractiveness for investments, technologies and skills. The Europe + Foundation organises the 7th annual edition of the World Investment Conference. Europe...
davidship | 03/01/2009
EU leaders have finished an emergency meeting in Brussels say they are resolute to stay away from protectionist move in reply to the fiscal crisis. "There was agreement on the need to avoid any one-sided protectionist measures," European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said.
patrickguillard | 09/04/2008
President of the Commission, José Manuel Barroso and Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs today received the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, Nobuo Tanaka who presented the main findings of IEA Review of the EU's Energy Policy
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