BS Degree in Chicanery - Completion of a nation's four-year learning experience from the election of a man who is a presidential failure.
The greatest teacher, failure is. ―Jedi Master Yoda
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TESTING THE WATERS: Manfred Weber, the EPP’s Spitzenkandidat for the EU election, gave a crowd of about 500 diners in Cyprus a first glimpse at his campaign Thursday. Beyond classic EPP issues such as supporting free trade and the single market, and his own belief that the EU should end accession talks with Turkey, he vowed to “make a political giant out of the economic giant” that is the EU. How? By pushing hard to move to majority voting on foreign policy in the Council, for one.
Weber vs. cancer: A third of European families are affected by cancer. Weber wants the EU to work together on “an ambitious approach on medicine research,” because “nobody thinks that one single country can win the fight” against the disease. He told the audience that experts and researchers told him that “if we combine our money and resources, we actually can cure cancer.”
Why Cyprus? “It wasn’t hard to decide where to start,” Weber told a crowd at the headquarters of the Democratic Rally, the country’s (and its President Nicos Anastasiades’) EPP party, shortly after he arrived in Cyprus. The Cypriots were the first to voice their support for Weber’s candidacy for the Commission presidency back in September — and with just a week’s notice, according to Democratic Rally officials, they put on a pretty remarkable show, dinner for about 500 guests included.
Weber returns the favor: “Cypriot issues are EU issues,” he said. “The key element is to fight for the reunification” of the divided island, he added, promising “we’re all Cypriots” — just as EU leaders have discovered over the past two Brexit years that they’re all Irish. Democratic Rally hopes to double its number of elected MEPs (well … up from one) in the May election. [POLITICO Brussels Playbook, January 11, 2019]
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