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Pleasantly, thought he had been out of favor now with the Twins in charge in Poland.

He's actually an intriguing choice, I wouldn't think it a bad one at all.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 04:07:43 PM EST
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Well, he has some shades of Bliar, some shades of corruption and power politics (no wonder from the former communist youth heir-apparent), and practising Atlanticism. But with all that said, given the offing, still an interesting choice from the East.

Though I'd prefer the former Slovenian President - that would be funny, a statesman turned hippy...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 04:32:27 PM EST
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I know he's not perfect but I'm sort of doubting perfect will be available. Although, imho Prodi would be a very good pick, but I don't want to say that out loud yet until after the upcoming elections for fear of giving him bad luck.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
by redstar on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 05:06:22 PM EST
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I think it should be someone
  1. well experienced in long negotiations of EU government heads,
  2. not to be expected to try to overshadow every other institution of the EU and gain extra powers,
  3. someone from a small EU member.

Juncker would be just perfect. Prodi not, Merkel not, Schüssel not.

However, the more important position, also coming up for selection, is (should be) that of Commission President, and I'd be fine with Prodi returning. Even finer with a PES candidate, say Rasmussen (Poul Nyrup, not the awful Anders Fogh).

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Feb 6th, 2008 at 05:35:12 PM EST
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Say, when did Fjogh Rasmussen become a PES candidate? I know PES is a bunch of right-wingers, but I don't think they've gone that far :-P

'Sides, Fjogh is busy fucking my country over. I mean, I wouldn't mind if someone took him off our hands, but I'd prefer it to be someone like the Siberian Regional Government Mission to Ulan Bator, or something like that.

- Jake

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Feb 7th, 2008 at 04:23:50 AM EST
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Say, when did Fjogh Rasmussen become a PES candidate?

I expected that to be the question of those non-Danes not remembering Poul Nyrup.

As for Fjogh, he can hire as cartoonist for a Baghdad newspaper.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Feb 7th, 2008 at 04:35:09 AM EST
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Does Baghdad have newspapers anymore?

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Feb 7th, 2008 at 07:56:04 AM EST
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