Though I am not sure Ellemann-Jensen would be my choice of Council President. Is he even in the running? We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
(born 1941) was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark in the Conservative led Poul Schlüter Administration 1982-1993. He was leader of the Danish Liberal Party, Venstre 1984-1998 and President of the European Liberals 1995-2000. Since 1998, Ellemann-Jensen has been Chairman of Baltic Development Forum, a non-profit networking organisation dedicated to the business development of the Baltic Sea region. He is non-executive director of various boards of international companies.
Date Title / Authors Available Languages April 2007 The EU's Appeasement of Russia by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen November 2006 A Fair Deal for Turkey by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen February 2006 Coexistence or No Existence by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen May 2005 Coming to Grips with History by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen February 2003 A Gasp from Europe by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen November 2002 A Better and Safer Europe by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen October 2002 Ireland's Second, and Last, Chance by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen June 2002 The Kaliningrad Question by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen April 2002 Not Only The Dutch Were Disgraced at Srebrenica by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen June 2001 Getting Over the Irish Stew by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen April 2001 Unfreezing Europe's Northern Dimension by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen October 2000 Europe's New Watershed by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen July 2000 The EU's Catch-22 by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen March 2000 Step in, Prodi! by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
His name was one of the few mentioned in the various threads, and the one with the most favorable comments. DoDo has expressed some reservations since, but he sounded like a decent choice for me as a tentative ET candidate then. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
As for Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, he was strongly atlanticist and was IMHO a bit too quick in recognizing the independence of the Baltic States (that was no small part of the Western-encouraged destabilization of Gorbachev's regime, and my impression is that the Baltic secession was an important motivation in the 19 August 91 coup, which led to the disaster that was Yeltsing and so on and so forth...). On the other hand, he took IMHO the right position on the Danish cartoon controversy, and as redstar points out a foreign minister of a medium-sized country would be a natural choice for President of the Council. We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
Later he suggests regularly inviting US representatives to sessions of the Council of Ministers and points to the failure of Kyoto as a case in point. What I found most troubling while reading his column is that he nowhere acknowledges that Europe and the US could ever have fundamentally different interests. Wait this is important. Someone is wrong on the Internet.
Re Migeru, I was probably more wary of Fischer until a year ago than most of you, but my current opinion was based on this op-ed alone: it shows he didn't learnt anything and got lost ideologically on the American lecture circuit. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Sadly the vast majority of the European political elites can't envision a Europe that's not defined by the transatlantic relationship. Wait this is important. Someone is wrong on the Internet.
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen?
Verhofstadt, Juncker? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
