Comments on: List of Sherpas for EU Constitution negotiations

By: Spiegel pessimistisch über deutsche Bloggerszene : Jan’s EUblog

Spiegel pessimistisch über deutsche Bloggerszene : Jan’s EUblog — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:10:05 +0000

[...] nicht ohne Zufall ist z.B. die Liste der Verfassungssherpas nicht in den Zeitungen sondern auf diesem Blog zum ersten mal (europaweit) öffentlich gemacht [...]

By: Michelle Micallef

Michelle Micallef — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:08:37 +0000

Dear Jan

I would like to add the following information for everybody’s benefit in so far as the advisors for Malta are concerned:

Richard Cachia Caruana, Permanent Representative of Malta to the EU and Chairman Inter-Ministerial Committee for EU Affairs
Cecilia Attard Pirotta, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

By: Kosmopolit

Kosmopolit — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:25:23 +0000

Transparency has succeeded! This week’s European Voice brings a list of all sherpas. The EV list features the same names as your list and adds the following:
Hungary: Zoltan Gal/ Gabor Ivan
Lithuania: Zygimantas Pavillionis
Denmark: Michael Zilmer-Johns
Malta: Richard Cachia Caruana/ Cecilia Attard Pirotta

By: Anders Larsson

Anders Larsson — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:20:11 +0000

I think you are right that Nicola Clase is the swedish sherpa since it came out yesterday on the newssite http://www.europaportalen.se that Nicola Clase had forgotten to inform the swedish parliament on what the swedish governments message to Merkel about the Berlin Declaration would be.

By: Nosemonkey / Europhobia » Europe’s story

Nosemonkey / Europhobia » Europe’s story — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:03:17 +0000

[...] By “Europe”, of course, he means primarily the EU. At a period when the EU project seems more confused and directionless than ever, and while secretive moves are being made to revive/revise the EU constitution, regular readers of this blog will know that one of my ongoing obsessions is what the decidedly late-20th century EU can do to make itself relevant again for the 21st century. [...]

By: Tomáš Ruta

Tomáš Ruta — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:04:13 +0000

Jan Zahradil is the most ardent opponent of the Constitution in Czechia. He was the choice of President Klaus, not of the new prime minister Topolánek. However, his arguments are always well-reasoned and his delivery is also among the finest.

The whole direction of Czech foreign policy is now very unclear, with the President trying to impose his ideas, somewhat unconstitutionally, on the weak government. I hope to write a post explaining the whole situation soon.