Cathy Ashton

01.08.2011 EU Politics / UK Politics

Danish MP proposes new role for David Miliband – special envoy to Syria

This is a bit of an odd one, but the source is an interesting (and controversial) Danish politician – Naser Khader. Khader has represented three different parties in the Danish Parliament, and now represents the Conservative People’s Party, the party

12.05.2011 EU Politics

Introducing the Cathy Ashton Sentence Generator

German Green MEP Reinhard Bütikofer outlines his concerns about Cathy Ashton this week in Strasbourg, including that she’s a ‘sentence generator’: So it gave me an idea. Now you can have a go as well, thanks to the automated Ashton

11.05.2011 EU Politics / UK Politics

Left Foot Forward | Attacked from all sides, Baroness Ashton’s position is getting perilous

“There are two main motivations for national leaders when nominating candidates for high positions in international organisations. Either send away a politician who could be a domestic opponent – for example Nicolas Sarkozy nominating Dominique Strauss-Kahn for the IMF –

30.04.2010 EU Politics

Europe’s lonely foreign minister

Today’s Daily Telegraph carries a story on rumours that the EU’s foreign minister high representative for foreign affairs Cathy Ashton might quit the position within months. It’s interesting to read this as, when reading that Lutz Güllner quit as her

19.11.2009 EU Politics / UK Politics

Baroness Ashton for High Rep – really?

Rumours are reaching me via Twitter that Baroness Ashton, UK Labour politician and outgoing Commissioner for Trade is the individual the socialists are now backing to be the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Policy. I must say I am astounded.