Jun
30
French MEP starts campaign for EP to move to Strasbourg
June 30, 2008 | 4 Comments
I have just seen this new and pretty embarrassing campaign “One City” for the European Parliament to have only one seat – in Strasbourg. After OneSeat.eu this is not really a creative idea. Also it is quite embarrassing when there is only one (French) MEP behind this. Brigitte Fouré is not the kind of MEP [...]
Jun
14
Irlands NO: bittere Pille für das Europa der Regierungen
June 14, 2008 | 2 Comments
Die vergangenen drei Tage in Dublin waren äußerst spannend, das Ergebnis des Referendums ist frustrierend. Es ist schon interessant wie eine (oder alle?) Regierung(en) Europa so an die Wand fahren können. Das durchschlagende Echo der Leute auf der Straße war, dass sie einfach den Eindruck hatten, dass sich keiner Mühe gegeben hat, ihnen den Lissabon [...]
Jun
10
Campaigning in Ireland: Dublin this week
June 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Ireland has the choice. This Thursday the people of Ireland will be the only EU citizens voting directly on the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty. According to the latest opinion polls, the outcome is in no way clear. Therefore, I have decided to go to Ireland and try to convince some of the many undecided [...]
May
19
Juncker to be European Council president, Miliband EU foreign minister
May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Apparently the game is set. WELT am Sonntag (or AFP) writes yesterday that a deal has been struck for all the upcoming EU top posts in 2009. Thanks to a clever buy-out of the British (by appointing Brown’s most likely challenger David Miliband as EU foreign minister) Juncker can become president of the European Council [...]
Apr
19
Lissabon Vertrag endlich als kompletter Text verfügbar
April 19, 2008 | 1 Comment
Nachdem ich wohl nicht der einzige war, der die peinliche Politik der Zurückhaltung einer konsolidierten Version des neuen Lissabon Vertrags kritisiert hat, kommt nun Bewegung in die Sache. Auf der Ratswebsite gibt es endlich die komplette konsolidierte Version des neuen Vertrags als PDF und DOC. Auf 479 Seiten (deutsche Version) lässt sich nun in extrem [...]
Apr
7
Europe United – à la francaise
April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment
The federalist anthem “Europe United” performed by some federalists and a youth theatre group in Grenoble – wonderful. Europe à la francaise: decication, soul, inspiration, theatre… This video is sooooo great! Check it out here. Credits to Spinelli for having spent some of his best years on Ventotene and coming up with the famous manifesto [...]
Apr
4
IHT covers whodoicall.eu – One President for the EU
April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
Today’s International Herald Tribune (IHT) covers Jon and my website initiative www.whodoicall.eu on page 3 – including excellent quotes from Jon. As Jon rightly points out in his blog comment, we are very happy about any reference or indeed support for this idea which needs to gather wider back-up. What is interesting is that Jacques [...]
Mar
21
EU leaders call for realisation of 5th freedom for knowledge
March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment
In their conclusions of the European summit from 13-14 March 2008 our dear EU leaders introduce the idea of a fifth freedom for the free movement of knowledge. The Presidency conclusions read like this: 8. In order to become a truly modern and competitive economy, and building on the work arried out on the future [...]
Mar
13
Am Rande des Brüsseler EU Gipfels wurde die neue Initiative für EINEN Präsidenten der EU vorgestellt. Die Website whodoicall.eu beruft sich auf das bekannte Henry Kissinger Zitat “Wen rufe ich an, wenn ich Europa sprechen will?” und fordert eine Personalunion von Kommissionspräsident und dem zukünftigen Posten des Präsidenten des Europäischen Rates. Nur so kann eine [...]
Mar
2
Europe needs One President – campaign launch: WhoDoIcall.eu
March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment
Recent speculation about names for the post of EU “President” suggest media interest in names – but little thinking about the implications of the new job. As I have argued in an earlier comment, I am strongly convinced that only ONE President of the EU can improve institutional shortcomings and bring executive in line. It [...]