By the way, Balkenende who seems to be the runner-up in this race so far, also supported Israel's war in 2006 and was, with Blair, responsible for the EU's failure to attempt to stop that war from escalating. By the way, guess who has troops stationed in Lebanon right now... France, Italy and Spain mostly, that's who. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
As for the others, I grumbled about this for a while, but I may have one problem with Mary Robinson, too: does she speak other languages than English? I wish a chairman of the European Council would speak at least a Romanesque language. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.