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Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:20 PM

Vaira Vike-Freiberga

Type: Person

Name: Vaira Vike-Freiberga

Title: President

Organization: Latvia

Date of Birth: 01/12/1937

Place of Birth: Riga

Nationality: Latvia

Fact Sheet: Biography for Vaira Vike-Freiberga

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 18 Documents

Giuliano Amato

No Sign of Compromise Before EU Jobs Summit

Swedish Prime Minister and President-in-Office of the European Council Fredrik Reinfeldt holds a press conference at the European headquarters in Brussels. (Georges Gobet/AFP/) BRUSSELSEuropean Union leaders faced a difficult summit on Thursday to appoint ... [Epoch Times - 11/19/2009]

Entities: European Union, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Giuliano Amato, Daniel Gros, Brussels

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 4 Documents (in Politics)

Herman van Rompuy

Divided EU leaders no closer to consensus on names for top jobs

Brussels European Union leaders were expected to gather for a high-tension summit last night, divided over who should be appointed to two of Europe's most important jobs and how the selection process should be carried out.Tony BarberFormer Latvia president ... [Gulf News - 11/20/2009]

Entities: European Union, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Latvia, Herman van Rompuy

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 5 Documents

European Union

Belgium Prime Minister Picked as European President

BRUSSELS Meeting to decide who will represent them on the global stage, the European Unions 27 leaders chose two low-key candidates with little international experience on Thursday, after Britain finally abandoned its campaign to install Tony Blair ... [New York Times - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Foreign Policy, Belgium, European Union

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Fredrik Reinfeldt

European Council set to make a meal of it

Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.Photo: Gunnar Seijbold/RegeringskanslietFrance, Germany and bookmakers are backing Belgian prime minister Herman van Rompuy to emerge as the future European Council President, but nothing is decided about the EU’s ... [Sofia Echo - 11/19/2009]

Entities: European Union, Fredrik Reinfeldt, France, Foreign Policy

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Tony Blair

EU president: leaders meet to select Europe's new figurehead

EU leaders meet in Brussels this evening to decide who will become Europe's first president after the failure of behind-the-scenes talks to reach consensus.The two new key posts - a President and a High Representative for Foreign Affairs - are created ... [Telegraph - 11/19/2009]

Entities: European Union, Tony Blair, Brussels

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Blair Out of Running as Europe Picks Top 2 Posts

BRUSSELS Meeting to decide who will represent them on the global stage, the European Unions 27 leaders were close to agreement Thursday on two low-key candidates with little international experience, after Britain finally abandoned its campaign to install ... [New York Times - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Tony Blair, Foreign Policy, European Union, Charles Grant

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Raúl Castro Ruz

Guardian Daily: EU presidential candidate blasts ‘secretive’ selection

Ex-Latvian leader criticises lack of transparency; repression in Raúl Castro's Cuba; M&S and high street fashions, in our daily audio show with Jon DennisEU leaders meet in Brussels tonight, where they'll decide who'll be the first President of the European ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009]

Entities: European Union, Raúl Castro Ruz, Daniel Wilkinson, Marks & Spencer Group Plc, Repression

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Who will be EU president?

The race to be president of the EU is heating up, with seven candidates standing out from the pack.With the decision looming, Europe correspondent Jonny Dymond has profiled the runners and riders.Click on the images below to listen to his take on the ... [BBC - 11/19/2009]

Entities: JavaScript, European Union, Latvia

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Germans to block Blair bid to be Europe President

Britain is locked in a dramatic clash with Germany over backing former prime minister Tony Blair's bid to be President of Europe.With Berlin deciding not to back Blair, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing one last-ditch effort to urge deadlocked ... [Sify - 11/19/2009]

Entities: William Hague, Brussels, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Chris Bryant, Herman van Rompuy

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Hail to the Chief, if you can manage to say it

I'll be penned in with the rest of the press corps tonight at the European Council building, waiting for Angela Merkel and the other leaders of the member states to choose the new president of the Council; well, actually just waiting for Merkel to choose. ... [Mail Online - Euroseptic: Mary Ellen Synon in B ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Angela Merkel, Massimo D'Alema, Miguel Angel Moratinos, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Olli Rehn

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

EU: LEADERS DINNER TONIGHT, DECISIVE NOMINATIONS MEETING

Stampa Invia questo articolo(AGI) - Brussels, 19 nov. - Leaders from the European Union will attempt to reach an accord tonight on the people who are to become the faces of a united Europe around the world.However, the potential outcome of the extraordinary ... [AGI Online - 11/19/2009]

Entities: European Union, Brussels, Massimo D'Alema, Vaira Vike-Freiberga

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

The EU's gentlemen's club

From Tony Blair to Herman Van Rompuy, the contenders for top European jobs are overwhelmingly maleRight now in Brussels the heads of the 27 national governments of the European Union's member states will be milling around.Gordon Brown will be lobbying ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009]

Entities: European Union, Tony Blair, Herman van Rompuy

Quotes

Former Latvia President Vaira Vike-Freiberga says choosing an EU president "should be more transparent" and that it s time for the EU to 'stop working like the former Soviet Union The Times of London reported Wednesday

Former Latvia president is EU contender [UPI - 11/18/2009]

"it is a lie and we should all protest against that because it implies that somehow talent was distributed only to those with one kind of chromosome" former Latvian president Vaira Vike-Freiberga told The Times

EU no closer to consensus on names for top jobs [EUobserver - 11/18/2009]

...first female head of state after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, also said she was furious at suggestions that the post should go to a male. "those people who say that should wash their mouths out with soap" Vike-Freiberga told The Times

Ex-Latvian president challenges rivals on top EU job [France24 - Science - 11/18/2009]

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Blogs

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The EU's gentlemen's club \| Jon Worth [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009] From Tony Blair to Herman van Rompuy, the contenders for top European jobs are overwhelmingly maleRight now in Brussels the heads of the 27 national governments ...
Hail to the Chief, if you can manage to say it [Mail Online - Euroseptic: Mary Ellen Synon in B ... - 11/19/2009] I'll be penned in with the rest of the press corps tonight at the European Council building, waiting for Angela Merkel and the other leaders of the member states ...
EU Presidential Selection [Outside The Beltway \| OTB - 11/18/2009] Tomorrow night, the European Union will have its first-ever president. Time’s Leo Cendrowicz reports that few Europeans much care, perhaps because they have no ...
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Does the EU need another president? [Global News Blog - 11/17/2009] The fact that European Union leaders have not yet reached a consensus on who should become president of the 27-nation bloc, with time running out before a summit ...

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