News Source: The independent
| about 3 hours ago
For a whole week, the political classes have been obsessed by the prospect of a hung Parliament. The subject has arisen quite suddenly, out of nowhere, or almost nothing. All that happened was that a newspaper published an opinion poll showing a
News Source: Times Online
| 1 day ago
His appointment came as a bitter footnote for the City after the unexpected triumph of the EU foreign minister post for Baroness Ashton of Upholland...The plan by President Sarkozy of France and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has been to take
News Source: Times Online
| 5 days ago
With Paris and Berlin setting their sights on controlling the EU’s economic agenda, a former French Foreign Minister, Michel Barnier, is being tipped to take the plum commission portfolio overseeing the internal market and financial services.
News Source: Spiked
| 5 days ago
After weeks of speculation, Thursday evening’s news about who had got the top jobs in the post-Lisbon Treaty European Union couldn’t have been more underwhelming. To be installed as president of the European Council is the 63-year-old prime
News Source: Times Online
| 7 days ago
Jonathan Oliver, Isabel Oakshott and Bojan Pancevski After a byzantine Brussels stitch-up, the appointment to one of the grandest jobs in the European Union was settled by text message. Early on Thursday evening Baroness Ashton, an obscure Labour
News Source: The Scotsman
| 8 days ago
Brown's team had been working for weeks on a back-up plan in the likely event that Tony Blair was vetoed for the top job. Baroness Ashton emerged as the British victor after 27 heads of government met over a meal to thrash out who would take two key
News Source: Times Online
| 8 days ago
Instead he settled for the post of EU High Representative for Baroness Ashton of Upholland. The Business Secretary and other ministers believed that one of the EU’s three big financial jobs — running the internal market and financial services,
News Source: The Guardian
| 8 days ago
When the Italian politician Signor Caligula was president of the European commission during one of the continent's more dynamic phases he appointed his horse to negotiate the early stages of the Doha trade round. You know something has gone horribly