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Blair aims for EU presidency

He is a warmonger; an American poodle and last but not the least a money spinner, busy converting his international political capital into lucre. These are some of the criticism the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing in his run-up for the European Union Presidency. In addition to Blair, currently, there are two more candidates – Taoiseach Bertie Ahern of Northern Island and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean Claude. While Nicholas Sarkozy is all for Tony, the former French president Giscard d’Estaing has expressed his apprehension, “Tony Blair cannot be President of Europe because the new President of Europe must come from a country, which respects all its European commitments.”

“Presently, EU does not have any legal provision for a President. The post will probably come up for grabs after the Constitution of the European Union comes into force by 2009. It will be a two-and-a-half year term for the president, who will be elected through a long process extending up to one year, but one cannot say that the process will be democratic because it will not involve the European population directly in electing their president,” says Naseer Ahmed editor Atlantic Affairs, a UK-based website while speaking to B&E.

Tony Blair’s aspirations to be the first President of EU are bound to raise controversies, especially in view of his closeness to Bush and his Iraq war policies. However, if he is able to turn things around in the Middle-East and usher in a new era of lasting peace in the region, his acceptability may improve in the coming days.

While Blair’s love for Anglo-Saxon economic model may endear him to the French President Sarkozy, but will the French public let another proponent of liberalisation be their leader?

B&E edit bureau: Atul Bharadwaj

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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