Comments on: The new European Parliament: reflections http://crossick.blogactiv.eu/2009/06/15/the-new-european-parliament-reflections/ Rated 6th most influential EU blog by Waggener Edstrom. European of British nationality, for nearly 30 years Bruxellois. Deep believer in the principle of 'mutuality' and Monnet's axiom "Thought cannot be divorced from action", equivalent to Wang Yangming's "Zhixingheyi". Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: JL http://crossick.blogactiv.eu/2009/06/15/the-new-european-parliament-reflections/#comment-3278 JL Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:38:58 +0000 http://crossick.blogactiv.eu/?p=810#comment-3278 The level of influence to be given to the new EP can be gauged from the joint press conference between Sarkozy and Merkel, the latter's case being evidently influenced by the imminent German federal elections. http://www.elysee.fr/documents/index.php?mode=view&lang=fr&cat_id=3&press_id=2703 The entire dim-witted European press corps seem to have overlooked the fact that Sarkozy and Merkel were talking about two entirely different "programmes", the first holding Barroso's feet to the fire to ensure he doe not jump he gun on appointments as he did five years ago, the second simply trying to agree an orderly process for the appointment of the next Commission, including its President. [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us '1055386704 which is not a hashcash value. The level of influence to be given to the new EP can be gauged from the joint press conference between Sarkozy and Merkel, the latter’s case being evidently influenced by the imminent German federal elections.

http://www.elysee.fr/documents/index.php?mode=view&lang=fr&cat_id=3&press_id=2703

The entire dim-witted European press corps seem to have overlooked the fact that Sarkozy and Merkel were talking about two entirely different “programmes”, the first holding Barroso’s feet to the fire to ensure he doe not jump he gun on appointments as he did five years ago, the second simply trying to agree an orderly process for the appointment of the next Commission, including its President.

[WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us ’1055386704 which is not a hashcash value.

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