EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Sweden has said it needs Jose Manuel Barroso to be given full and clear backing for a second term as commission president or its term as EU presidency country, beginning in July, will be weakened. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt dismissed proposals - said to come from France - that Mr Barroso be given interim backing next week until October when the commission's current term expires and a new set of institutional rules is possibly in place. 'Yes I am' a candidate for a second term, says Jose Manuel Barroso (r) "We intend to elect Mr Barroso as president of the commission ... but it should be a full mandate," said Mr Reinfeldt, on Tuesday (9 June). He said a half endorsement while the EU waits to see ratification of the Lisbon Treaty is completed would "put pressure on the capacity of the Swedish presidency" to react to major issues such as the financial crisis and climate change - with the latter due at an international CO2-reduction agreement by the end of the year.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Sweden has said it needs Jose Manuel Barroso to be given full and clear backing for a second term as commission president or its term as EU presidency country, beginning in July, will be weakened.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt dismissed proposals - said to come from France - that Mr Barroso be given interim backing next week until October when the commission's current term expires and a new set of institutional rules is possibly in place.
'Yes I am' a candidate for a second term, says Jose Manuel Barroso (r)
"We intend to elect Mr Barroso as president of the commission ... but it should be a full mandate," said Mr Reinfeldt, on Tuesday (9 June).
He said a half endorsement while the EU waits to see ratification of the Lisbon Treaty is completed would "put pressure on the capacity of the Swedish presidency" to react to major issues such as the financial crisis and climate change - with the latter due at an international CO2-reduction agreement by the end of the year.
Big whooping surprise. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
what a way to run things, sigh. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
