Sarkozy Hopes to Win Merkel for Blair
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Tue, 2008-01-29 13:56
A quote from The Daily Mail, 29 January 2008
Tony Blair landed another highly-paid City job yesterday to take his earnings past £10million in the seven months since he left Downing Street. He is well on his way to becoming Britain's richest former Prime Minister after becoming an adviser to the Swiss financial giant Zurich for an estimated £2million a year. Mr Blair, 54, will assist the insurance firm on climate change and "developments and trends in the international political environment". […]
He is also lobbying to be the first full-time president of the European Union from next year, which will pay £200,000 a year. […] At the World Economic Forum in Switzerland [Mr. Blair] told leaders he was ready to interrupt his business career to return to the political frontline. He already has the support of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who is his unofficial campaign manager. But he needs backing from Berlin to be sure of a deal.
German chancellor Angela Merkel is said to support him privately but faces opposition from Left-wing members of her coalition, who do not want to back a man they consider a warmonger.
Diplomats say Mr Sarkozy will play a key role in talking her round. Gaining her endorsement would amount to a done deal.
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Blair for POTUSE? 9 January 2008
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Back in the EUSSR, 21 June 2007
Blair Pulls Out the Pin, 18 June 2007
Is Blair Betraying Britain? 16 June 2007
Sage advice
Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Tue, 2008-01-29 14:27.
Sarkozy hopes to win Merkel for Blair ... Merkel is said to support him privately but faces opposition from Left-wing members of her coalition,who do not want to back a man they consider a warmonger.
"Recompense injury with kindness,said Lao-Tse; to which Confucius is said to have answered, "Recompense kindness with kindness,but recompense injury with justice".
Sage advice,I'd say.