Financial Times:
Decision heals internal disagreements within the EU but left a question mark over whether the best possible candidates had been chosen. (Read More)
Financial Times:
Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy was on course to become the EU’s president after Tony Blair pulled out of the race, EU officials said. (Read More)
Financial Times:
Tony Blair has dropped out of the race to be EU president, but Cathy Ashton, Britain’s relatively low key European Commissioner, was poised to grab the second new European post of foreign policy supremo at a summit in Brussel (Read More)
EurActiv.com:
The Swedish EU Presidency struck a deal on 17 November with the European Parliament on a new energy label for household appliances which will add more classes to the closed A-G format. (Read More)
EurActiv.com:
The Swedish EU Presidency organised yesterday (16 November) a press event which saw campaigners for women to be appointed to top EU positions made a final plea ahead of an extraordinary EU summit to decide on the new top jobs (Read More)
Bloggingportal.eu - Today's posts:
David Miliband is out, but Tony Blair is still in with a shout. Those whom shriek with horror at the thought of a Blair presidency, but also want a stronger more coherent EU might want to consider the potential contradictions (Read More)
EUnews:
The European Union's Swedish presidency was still struggling Monday to find consensus candidates for two new top jobs days before a summit meant to decide the issue, amid calls for more women to stand. (Read More)
EUnews:
Spain's secretary of state for Europe is to be questioned by a judge
over allegations he misused public funds, just weeks before Madrid takes
over the EU presidency, judicial sources said Friday. (Read More)
EUnews:
The speaker of the German parliament, an ally of Chancellor Angela
Merkel, backs Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker for European Union
president, a press report cited him as saying on Friday. (Read More)
EurActiv.com:
The Swedish EU Presidency is preparing to limit the activity of European alternative investment funds to within European borders, a document from the EU's rotating presidency revealed yesterday (11 November). (Read More)
Bloggingportal.eu - Today's posts:
I was fortunate enough to speak with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Tuesday about how the European Union is going about the task of choosing its first full-time president and its next foreign policy high represen (Read More)
Reuters:
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Group of 20 plans to coordinate global economic policy for more harmonious world growth should take into account foreign exchange rates, current European Union president Sweden said on Friday. (Read More)
Financial Times:
Tony Blair, the former prime minister, has attempted to revive his fading prospects of becoming the European Union’s first full-time president by lobbying directly the leaders of France and Germany, EU government sources have (Read More)
Telegraph Europe:
Herman Van Rompuy the Belgian prime minister has emerged as the favourite to become the first president of the European Union despite being almost unknown on the international stage. (Read More)