Take me to your Leader!? : Who will be the presidents of the EU?!

by Good European Wed Sep 09, 2009 19:32

He's in it to win it

by ludopath - ( iosaf ) Thu Sep 10, 2009 13:17

I might be wrong, then again, I might be right. Whatever, I do have the feeling that very few voters know how the permanent president of the European Council thing will work out. Like ask yourselves, have you paid as much attention to those in the running or the ridiculously vague description of the job in the Lisbon Treaty?

Like hands up and be honest and shame the devil - how many of us know how long the proposed term of office would be for?

When our own Irish Liam Cosgrave became the first man, woman or son of a prime minister of the Irish Free State to be the first president of the European council - not one person would have found the resources in their begrudgery to squeel out he was only doing a 6 month revolving stint.

So once you've got passed your Tony Blair fixation of 2 and one half years - who would come next?
The same one might repeat, for there is nothing in the Lisbon treaty about limiting their terms. But at some stage due to incontinence, exhaustion or assumption into heaven, a president of the EC will pass on. At best we'd get to see a new one four times a decade. Within thirty years we could have potentially (if all went to plan) seen 7 founding presidents of the EU.

That's like the founding father phase of the USA on steroids. Just to think the Irish government new drug policy recommendations will include surveillance of head shops but not gyms or farms. I digress. Don't we all. Voting Yes to the Lisbon Treaty and getting it out of our in-trays and worries will very truthfully mean an awful lot of hard concentrating to do further into the future. It will hurt. It will boggle the mind. Worse of all it would come with a very bitter taste.

Blair is a candidate for one of those 30 month terms....... he's said nothing to elucidate what he imagines the job entails or responsibilities or relaxding pleasures it might afford or tax him with.

Because just as few can trace the origins of the job, say how much it pays, how it would be awarded, what its responsibilites are, who would gaurd it, who who feed,water & house it -

nobody wants to talk about it.

Luxembourger Juncker is also a candidate for one of those 30 months........ he's only said he reckons the job should mean more than wishing the president of the USA happy birthday (a few times a year). In fact any European prime minister or ex prime minister whose name or face you could expect a panel of news junkie lawyers and school teachers across the continent to recognise
can be on that list.

¿ why aren't you on the list?

If you are an ambitious parent or uncle / aunt to a talented child, what sort of things should you be telling the wee langer so that they get to be Ireland's first permanent Euro-pres? We've had three temporary rotating ones -

*Liam Cosgrave Junior,
*Charles J Haughey Sr,
*Bertie (bartholomew) Ahern

poor auld wikipedia still reckons bertie ahern is in the run as a candidate. It must be the English speaking thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_the_Council_...Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_EU_i...ssion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_EU_i...tions

by Silvio Fan. Thu Sep 10, 2009 16:06

"Silvio per Presidente del Europa".

Silvio will liven the place up for sure:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/arti...4.ece

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