Peer Steinbrück – The new German EU Commissioner?

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

September 11, 2009 · 4 Comments

Just a quick post about the German discussion about the new EU Commissioner. (and a part of our concerted blog campaign). btw: Jan wrote a very useful overview of the state of play in all EU member states. Obviously, there is no real debate about the question who should replace Verheugen since German elections will [...]

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Quotes of the Week (VI)

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

July 21, 2009 · 2 Comments

Richard Laming (Federal Union Blog) The powers that the EU ought to have are those that the member states cannot exercise effectively on their own: no more and no less. Nosemonkey: the EU’s “democratic deficit”[...] is actually preserving the sovereignty of the member states. Jean Quatremer: (Solana) L’homme qui “parle toutes les langues sans qu’on [...]

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Barroso, Sarko, Merkel

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

June 20, 2009 · 1 Comment

Rainer Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland, Germany Rainer Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland, Germany

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Stop Barroso – too little too late?

by Kosmopolit in Bright side of life, EU politics

June 17, 2009 · No Comments

Stop Barroso is a nice campaign by the greens with a very funny video (via Anyone but Barroso) .  “In the absence of a firm agenda from him, perhaps we  take this as his programme for government?” asks The European Citizen blog. Although I fully support the campaign and the idea behind it I partly [...]

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Quotes of the week (IV)

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

May 25, 2009 · No Comments

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen: In 2004 Barroso was a compromise candidate, in 2009 he is a compromised candidate. Daily Mail’s Chief Leader Writer We couldn’t report on what is going on in Europe, and no paper can because the readers won’t wear it. It is simply not conceivable that we would cover, for example, the European [...]

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The fish rots from the head

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

May 11, 2009 · 1 Comment

Wolfgang Münchau hits the nail on the head: There is nothing in European politics that stinks more than the apparent inevitability of another five-year term for José Manuel Barroso, the Portuguese president of the Commission. He spent most of the last few years on his bid for re-election rather than doing his job. If the [...]

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Anyone but Barroso!

by Kosmopolit in Digital Public Sphere, EU politics

November 27, 2008 · 5 Comments

Jon Worth has just launched a new campaign that aims at replacing European Commission President Barroso with…well, anyone but Barroso. And it is even featured in this weeks European Voice! The “Anyone but Barroso” – Campaign calls for a new Commission President in 2009: We don’t care who but the Commission needs a new President [...]

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