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Private equity funds are endlessly changing financeand Intercarrier big icing on the cake the creditThey needed to challenge the normal proceduresIf one adds the window edges the potential quadHowever for his peers Yves Bénard is a genuine baronIt runs first to a question from perimeterEach floor of Ingolstadt its torture chambersTwo budding entrepreneurs within the gloveA project also denounced by Impala which jWill it succeed The short answer is Yes but with the forcepsFormer Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek had two good reasons to welcome yesterday. It is the first citizen of Eastern access to a high European service. He is also the first President of the Parliament elected in the first round with a close score of the plebiscite: 555 votes on expressed 644, the other candidate, Eva - Britt Svensson Swedish presented by the Communists, obtaining only 89 votes.
"It is an enormous challenge and a great honour," said the new President, who has admitted having dreamed to become a member of the diet of his country, when he was in the Solidarity Trade Union, but never to be brought to perch of the European Parliament. At the age of sixty-nine, this elegant, very popular protestant in his country, appears as a man of compromise and conciliation according to his supporters, his detractors as "weak and easily influenced.
His triumphant election is explained by the desire of a number of capitals - Berlin in mind - to entrust this position to a representative of a new State member of the East. And also by "technical agreement" passed once again between the PPE, his right-wing party and the Socialists to share the perch of the Parliament in two periods of 30 months.
Saving face
At a time where the Parliament wishes to assert its authority and its independence from Governments, by freezing at least up to the re-entry of September the renewal of José Manuel Barroso at the head of the Commission, Jerzy Buzek will have to manage skilfully an eminently political calendar. "We need a President of the Commission on investment as quickly as possible", he explained. But to do this, the EPP must be able to count on the support of the Socialists and some liberal. The first appeared to be acquired in exchange for the sharing of the Presidency of the Assembly. But the leader of the Socialist Group Martin Schulz has raised the tone. "For us, Barroso is not the right candidate." "He is discredited and ineligible", he said yesterday, no doubt thinking of legislative German from September 27. His party, the SPD, will indeed there face the CDU of Angela Merkel, Barroso official support, and it is difficult to show a consensus to renew the current President of the Commission. In addition, only the main opponent to José Manuel Barroso, the leader of the Greens, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, admits is not beaten. He says that he has already brought together "of 280 to 310 votes" to deny a second term of Barroso and that, in a vote by secret ballot, this figure could still rise.
Cohn-Bendit has proposed to the Parliament an alternative scenario. "Barroso was Prime Minister, it is nice, it comes from a small country and it speaks all the languages of the Union." "He has the ideal profile to become the President of the European Council provided for by the Treaty of Lisbon", he explained, stressing that this scenario would allow the leaders of the Union to save face and to find another candidate for the Commission. The leader of the Greens submitted the name of the British Chris Patten, former Governor of Hong Kong and former Commissioner. "He has stood up to the Chinese." "He could stand up to Sarkozy and Merkel", he said, although this scenario seems for the moment, have little chance to see the day.
