Tony Blair at the head of the EU, the British idea of a joke ?

Jean Portante derides Tony Blair's "European dream" as the former UK prime minister is widely said to be a candidate for the position of EU president that is part of the Lisbon Treaty. "Only the refined British sense of humour can help one grasp such an ambition. Let us remember, as if anyone could forget, that Great Britain governed by a certain Tony Blair was not only the champion opponent to the Constitutional Treaty, also kept its distance from both the Schengen and the euro zones, that are after all two incontrovertible pillars of Europe's unity. Even the European Charter of Fundamental Rights was a difficult pill for it to swallow. ... In these conditions, to promote Gordon Brown's predecessor for presidency of the Union is at best a joke, at worst continental amnesia of even a provocation."

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