November 21, 2009
Published: 11 Nov 09 09:58 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23200/20091111/
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Sweden, which currently hold the rotating EU presidency, has called an extraordinary meeting in Brussels next week with the aim of presenting candidates for the new positions of president and foreign policy chief.
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In Europe, we need a president from the Eurozone.
We need a president who will put Europe first, not phone America everytime for a decision on what to do next. We are Europeans, we can think for ourselves.
Europe has far better and significantly more able candidates for the presidency of Europe, such as Paavo Lipponen, Tarja Halonen, Guy Verhofstadt, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Herman Van Rompuy, Mary Robinson, Wolfgang Schüssel or Jan Peter Balkenende. Any of whom would make a very good president for Europe.
I would personally prefer Paavo Lipponen, Mary Robinson or Tarja Halonen. in that order of preferance.
She did rule herself out a while back, but apparently a lot of people are pressuring her to run for this. A lot of European countries would support her if she did run for president. She carries a lot of respect on the left, centre and right in Europe.
She is also a very strong person who would really raise the bar on what a president of Europe should be. Idiots like Blair could never reach that bar. Blair would only command a bit of respect in the USA and be hated everywhere else, which is not what Europe needs.
A lot of very good names are started to be mentioned in regards to the presidency.
Personally I would love to see Paavo Lipponen, Mary Robinson and Tarja Halonen run for president of Europe. Candidates of that calibre would really make Europe shine. They would also command respect in dealings with Russia, China, Latin America, Japan and other countries.
For the second presidental term of Europe, I would like to see Angela Merkel hold the post.
We don't need people like Berlosconi or Blair in Europe.
Strong, able, trustworthy candidates are what Europe needs.
I really do hope that Paavo Lipponen, Mary Robinson and Tarja Halonen can be talked into being candidates for President of Europe. One of them would give Europe a very strong voice on the international stage and in Europe.
The word liberal is not an insult in Europe. It is actually a complementary term. Thank you.
A suggestion.
When making comments, please explain what you are actually talking about, as your comment makes absolutely no sense at all.
As usual wrong.
I can't find liberalism in the diagnostic and statistical manual or the ICD.
Liberalism is not listed anywhere as a mental disorder. You are mistaken that it is a mental disorder.
Nazi Germany was defeated in 1945, so there is nowhere in Europe you would fit in. I assume you know how to book a flight elsewhere, were you will find a country with the mentality you crave.
Why, that's Gordon Brown, of course. He always looks like that. So would you if you were in his position. Poor man's probably thinking about the by-election in Glasgow NE tomorrow. Or is it bye-election as in bye-bye?
http://www.se2009.eu/en
That way you can learn everything that Sweden has been doing in the EU
i wish you luck on this EU president thing,you will need it!
Being president of your country doesn´t mean a damn thing.
If you are not from Europe, it is none of your business.
don't get mad if my comments are TRUE and which they are! this is the 7th kingdom of the last days!! i can't help you european dusche bags can't get stuff right! the EU is a BIG JOKE!!!!
Until Russians, Europeans, Africans, latin Americans, Chinese and everyone in the Middle East has a vote in the USA, it is none of your business, as it is obvious people in the USA are incapable of voting for sane, tational politicians.
This article is about Sweden in a European forum. It is nothing to do with the USA.
bLIAR should be sent to the Hague, not to Brussels.
I do not know if Iran's presidential election was free and fair or not, but if bLIAR is imposed on us, it will most certainly not be free, fair or democratic. If it happens, for once decent people throughout the EU should show their resolve and demonstrate in their hundreds of millions to force him out immediately and to despatch him to the international war crimes tribunal.
Nemesis, bLIAR is no idiot. He is extremely cunning, selfish and dishonest. He hijacked and destroyed the Labour party for his own benefit, with the support of 'liberals' like 'The Observer'. You are letting him off lightly by dismissing him as an idiot.
On the subject of 'liberal', considering that most 'liberals' in England wholeheartedly supported the illegal war in Iraq, when even conservatives in mainland Europe opposed it, liberals are just hypocrites. It would take a white 'liberal' in England a fraction of a second to become an anti immigrant right winger if his middle class privileges were taken away.
"If you are not from Europe, it is none of your business." Sounds very 'liberal' doesn't it? Does that mean for all those who are not from USA, it is none of their business who the President of USA is?