I don’t understand the circumstancss where your staff allow this photo to be taken. pic.twitter.com/b63LzWLFjU — Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) October 20, 2017 What is the answer to that? Via this Buzzfeed piece I know it is an AP image. Looking through AP’s image bank you get to this. It says […]
Tag: Donald Tusk
Enough of the schadenfreude, EU. UK politics is in a mess, and it’s no laughing matter.
After the problems the UK has caused the EU over the years, and the short term headache posed by the Brexit referendum last year, Theresa May ending up with a hung parliament having hoped for a huge win last week resulted in plenty of mirth in the rest of the […]
A little transparency to confront the national responses to the EU’s refugee crisis
Hungary has shut its border to Serbia completely. So the refugees head towards Croatia instead (and Croatia then closes its border), and if the refugees do succeed they may need to cross minefields. Then fears are raised in Slovenia that the refugees might well head there – its PM Miro […]
Candidates for President of the European Commission – where we stand in January 2014
Back in the early summer of 2013 I wrote a detailed series of blog posts about the future President of the European Commission. There were posts about EPP, PES and other candidates. Overall those posts have stood up well over the last 6 months. But with the EP elections just […]
EPP candidates for Commission President
In a previous post I analysed the likely candidates from the centre left PES for Commission President. Here I examine who the centre right EPP might put forward. It is worth bearing in mind that the nomination process depends on the outcome of the European Parliament elections, according to Article […]