The next European Commission President
The axis of weasels is at it again... From
EUROSOC comes this story:
bq.
A Modest Proposal
Surprise, surprise, Germany has joined France in insisting that the next president of the European Commission must be from a country in the EU's "core area" - ruling out British, Nordic or central European candidates for the job.
bq. Of course, this narrows the field to mostly Old European nations, who have been in the EU for decades and have signed up to integrationist policy such as the Single Currency.
bq. Like France's president Chirac, Gerhard Schröder believes that a candidate from the EU's inner core would be more sympathetic to the
often paradoxical Franco-German dynamic which demands more integration while breaking EU legislation it disapproves of.
bq. The
Telegraph reports that installing an Old European president would allow France and Germany to retain control over the pace and direction of EU integration.
Emphasis mine -- fucking hypocrites...
Posted by DaveH at June 22, 2004 10:15 AM