Blog posts tagged "EU"

June 21, 2010 8:44 am 11 Comments

Jon Snow blogs on his travels to the EU, via the Non-EU country of Switzerland.

October 27, 2009 11:44 am No Comments

McDonald's pulls out of Iceland as the country eyes European Union membership. Tony Blair EU presidency rumours continue.

October 21, 2009 11:41 am No Comments

Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow asks why there was such a strong reaction to the idea the Tony Blair could become president of the EU.

October 19, 2009 5:50 pm 107 Comments

The presidency of Europe is slipping rapidly from Tony Blair’s hands. My sources in Brussels and elsewhere report a rapid sea change in the former prime minister’s fortunes as ratification of the Lisbon treaty creeps closer (the Czech president could reluctantly sign it within a week). Those sources tell me that Blair’s candidacy has been [...]

March 17, 2009 9:27 am 15 Comments

The EU President Jose Manuel Barroso is a boundless optimist. Most of our intersection yesterday was satisfactorily off the record. I say “satisfactorily” because, of course, you learn far more, and can eventually drip-feed what you learn subtly into succeeding perspectives as the months go by. But what I did learn whilst I was at [...]