Who is Your Candidate?

Who is Your Candidate? - is a campaign that we launched prior to the election to the European Parliament in 2004. We wrote the parties in the European Parliament and asked them who they each wanted to nominate for the post as President of the European Commission. From the answers we recieved, we could see that the Christian Democrats came close to suggesting Jean Claude Juncker, who could not be persuaded.

Unfortunately, the result was that the European Council, behind closed doors, elected José Manuel Barroso. In New Europe we want to make another attempt at moving this important presidential election into an open forum. Prior to the election to the European Parliament in 2009, we will again write the parties and ask them the question Who is Your Candidate? The chances for success have not worsened. The new Reform Treaty contains new articles which give the European Parliament even more influence concerning this exact issue.

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