Blair 'not right' for Euro president

The first president of Europe must be a “decent national statesman” with “impeccable” European credentials – and that rules out Tony Blair, a former senior eurocrat said today.

Blair 'not right' for Euro president

The first president of Europe must be a “decent national statesman” with “impeccable” European credentials – and that rules out Tony Blair, a former senior eurocrat said today.

Frenchman Pierre Defraigne, once the Commission’s deputy director-general for trade, set out the case against the former prime minister in an article published today in European Voice, the Brussels weekly newspaper.

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