Dear team at European Tribune, We have been following your organisation's website and reading some of your blog posts over the last few months, as individuals and as members of the Stronger Europe team, a non-affiliated pro-European campaigning group. We are emailing because we thought you might be interested by our upcoming campaign for the direct election of the President of the European Commission. We have sought feedback from our readers and twitter followers, and contacted MEPs to ask if they would be willing to table a Written Declaration showing support for the campaign. The feedback we got was generally very positive and we will be launching our campaign site, getting people to contact their MEPs and national representatives asking them to support the campaign. We wanted to check what your team thought of this campaign and whether you would like to participate or get involved in any way. We look forward to hearing from you. For more info about us, feel free to check out our blog at blog.strongereurope.com or follow us on twitter @strongereurope Best wishes, Clement and the Stronger Europe team.
We have been following your organisation's website and reading some of your blog posts over the last few months, as individuals and as members of the Stronger Europe team, a non-affiliated pro-European campaigning group.
We are emailing because we thought you might be interested by our upcoming campaign for the direct election of the President of the European Commission.
We have sought feedback from our readers and twitter followers, and contacted MEPs to ask if they would be willing to table a Written Declaration showing support for the campaign. The feedback we got was generally very positive and we will be launching our campaign site, getting people to contact their MEPs and national representatives asking them to support the campaign.
We wanted to check what your team thought of this campaign and whether you would like to participate or get involved in any way.
We look forward to hearing from you. For more info about us, feel free to check out our blog at blog.strongereurope.com or follow us on twitter @strongereurope
Best wishes,
Clement and the Stronger Europe team.
Does anyone know them? Worth joining. Can anyone investigate and do a diary? Wind power
The way out of this deadlock is a stronger Europe. As detailed in our previous policy proposals, through the enforcement of fiscal policies, Europe, as one economic unit, can develop the capacity to raise money on financial markets. This capacity could be used to solve Europe's debt crisis. It would enable Europe to take on part of member states' debt and relieve the pressure on their shoulders in exchange of their binding commitment to respect budgetary sobriety. Additionally, Europe's borrowing capacity should be used to launch a stimulus package boosting member states' growth and therefore enabling them to quickly reach budgetary equilibrium. This stimulus package should encompass areas such as education and infrastructure projects and aim at making Europe a place of opportunities for the coming decade. We therefore think that the way out of the debt crisis for Europe is to collect taxes to be able to borrow money and: Take on part of the debt of member states to put an end to the current debt crisis Impose a binding commitment to member states to respect budgetary sobriety/equilibrium Invest in a European stimulus package encompassing different areas of growth Do you agree?
We therefore think that the way out of the debt crisis for Europe is to collect taxes to be able to borrow money and:
At Stronger Europe, we believe that there are two ways out of these upcoming crises: die weakly divided or thrive in a strong union.
They are a London based team: two French and one Briton in their early 20s. What Mig would rightly call the Erasmus generation.
Apparently, they're getting in touch because of this:
Welcome to Stronger Europe! | Stronger Europe
The second step, due to launch in February 2012, is an online campaigning platform to allow citizens across Europe to effectively campaign for a stronger, better governed Europe guided by the proposals created in our policy discussion.
(that's all I know: I discovered them tonight and just browsed their blog) Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
Though what might happen is a drift towards the office being held by major political leaders.
Blair was very interested in the Euro Presidency and was looking forward to accepting it before various rabble rousers and scruffy oiks began to make a nuisance of themselves and all went quiet.
I'm sure Merkozy would enjoy the chance for another 4 years bathed in the light of consequence. keep to the Fen Causeway
Whoever the EPP nominates would probably win. If the EPP member parties can get over their respective nationalistic impulses and agree on a candidate.
Else, you'd get a German speaker. tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
But the EPP has a problem in that they do play more heavily to nationalistic themes then PES does. So say that we run primaries in the parties and then a French-style two-step election. EPP and PES ends up with one candidate each. Would then the EPP be better at PES in whipping up support for their foreigner in all other countries? 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!
I'm not so glad about who we got in exchange.
Though I think it would suffice to have the parliament appoint the Commission President in accordance with normal parliamentary rules, that is each party (or party group in EP-lingo) makes clear from the start who their candidate is and who their potential coalition partners are. This could also be accomplished without changes, just declare the candidates, run them on the posters and vote against alternatives the Council might churn out while de-crying how the Council tries to circumvent the democratic vote. Eventually, this would give the Council more of a royal/speaker role in the appointment process.
Who would win is a lot about the system. If Blair run, not-Blair would have a lot of votes for free. 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!
