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2004-06-18 Europe

Blair rips "dictator" Chirac at EU summit

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Posted by Mike 2004-06-18 2:23:55 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Goes to show you. Domestic politics has little to do with the big picture.
Tony Blair gets it.

We can disagree on many things, but the true measure is the understanding of the big picture.

That is why the Dems here showed their true colors, and ignored Joe Lieberman.

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-18 2:53:13 PM|| 2004-06-18 2:53:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm getting so sick about that "entente infernale" between Chirac and Schroeder.
At least Schroeder won't survive this year as chancellor. The knifes get sharpened already after his dismal performance at the EU elections.

Posted by True German Ally 2004-06-18 3:20:29 PM|| 2004-06-18 3:20:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 TGA : How long before we get Chancellor Merkel, and a little more sanity returns?

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-18 3:23:59 PM|| 2004-06-18 3:23:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 TGA - I truly look forward to a Germany Under New Management, too. That will be the end of Chirac's ability to offer the pretense that he doesn't speak only for himself.

Can you say who you think will be the next Chancellor? Maybe Edmund Stoiber? Pravda seem to like him, lol!

Posted by .com 2004-06-18 3:27:06 PM|| [http://www.amble.com/images/cup_brasil_fan_1.jpg] 2004-06-18 3:27:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Tony, thank you. Finally someone with a devastating combination of intelligence, wit, and courage has taken Chirac to task. Keep it up!

Posted by jules 187 2004-06-18 3:40:36 PM|| 2004-06-18 3:40:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Domestic politics has little to do with the big picture. Tony Blair gets it

I'm not so sure domestic politics didn't influence Blair's actions, BigEd. The repudiation of pro-EU integration candidates this past week seems to be to be a wakeup call to him, saying UK voters are not happy at the thought of the UK being subordinated to a strong federal EU.

Do our UK members agree? or am I off base here?

Posted by rkb 2004-06-18 4:15:34 PM|| 2004-06-18 4:15:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 .com, the next chancellor will probably be SPD... (until elections of course). I see a party putsch coming up there. The SPD has reached a dangerous point... the Greens doubled their votes in the EU elections and might very well become real rivals, not only junior partners. Parts of the Greens have actually more sanity than the Social Democrats.
The well informesd sources say that Henning Scherf, a well liked popular SPD guy and mayor of Bremen (in a "big coalition" with the CDU) is courted as Schroeder's successor (no minister in the Schroeder cabinet has any popularity to succeed Schroeder).
As for the CDU/CSU opposition, it's still too early to tell who will win the power struggle. Angela Merkel wants more radical market reforms, Stoiber will probably try to coat them in candy.

Chances that Schroeder will lose his job this year are at 80% (my estimate). He's a complete failure and history won't treat him very kindly.

Posted by True German Ally 2004-06-18 4:32:25 PM|| 2004-06-18 4:32:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 My Google assignment is clear, lol! I'd better get busy and quit listening to the press/agenda! Thanx!

Posted by .com 2004-06-18 4:38:12 PM|| [http://www.amble.com/images/Rumsfeld_MartialArts.jpg] 2004-06-18 4:38:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 And yet they managed to hack together an EU constitution.

Posted by Rafael 2004-06-18 4:39:52 PM|| 2004-06-18 4:39:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Tony, give him a knee to groin shot for me. Jolly good show, old man.

Posted by Capt America 2004-06-18 4:59:23 PM|| 2004-06-18 4:59:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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