Talk:President of the European Council

message: Is this section anything other than reportage of speculation.  No formal announcements of candidacy yet, nor even ratification that the job will exist in that format.  Kevin McE (talk) 08:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think its important to mention the names that are coming up (and Blair was formally supported/proposed by Sarkozy making it more than just speculation) as earlier it is mentioned that the type of person will determine what the Presidents power and influence would be like in the future.- J Logan t: 10:47, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The picture of Anders Fogh looks horrid. There are many open-source pictures of him that are better, but I dont know how to edit wikipedia this way. Could someone replace the picture?
-Alexander
http://images.google.com/images?client=opera&rls=en&q=anders+fogh+rasmussen&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.48.185.54 (talk) 16:02, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Candidates for 2009 

message: I'm not sure about having three images there, we have those three but there are four mentioned and no doubt more to come. Blair is the frontrunner, we might as well just show him as otherwise it will be biased or turn into a gallery.- J Logan t: 12:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The three currently displayed are the three mentioned most often by far, from what I've read in news articles. Some Scandinavians have been mentioned too, but not as much IMO. Of course the Blair-Sarkozy thing has been covered most by the english-language media, but I think we should keep these three until more new more-or-less candidates are actively spoken of. The current caption contains the words among others. - \mathrm{S} \mathrm{Solberg} \mathrm{J} 15:17, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough, but if we get to the stage where we have official candidates then we should default to just those figures I reckon.- J Logan t: 16:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course. - \mathrm{S} \mathrm{Solberg} \mathrm{J} 16:06, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: Animum, why have you immediately reverted my edit?89.148.90.179 (talk) 00:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Really sorry, I just got a bit too hasty on RC patrol.  Apologies, —Animum (talk) 00:25, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the restore! I shall at last register to avoid being mistaken for a spammer.89.148.90.179 (talk) 06:39, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reverted

message: Why do we now have an image gallery of the candidates? Don't you think this is going over the top, it really doesn't help much and one is just a place holder anyway. One or two is one thing, but now we have loads of images of names that have been mentioned in passing by the press. We don't need any of them really.- J Logan t: 13:57, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the five uppermost (one horisontal line, choosing those with similar aspect ratio and IMO good image quality), and I still think there should be images of more candidates that just Blair and Jancker. But ten images is over the top. Especially, we shouldn't try to make it an official gallery that includes every politician ever mentioned. At least Mary Robinson shouldn't be there if we haven't got an image of her. - \mathrm{S} \mathrm{Solberg} \mathrm{J} 14:49, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery 

message: Ahern may indeed have economic, political, and diplomatic experience and a great reputation. But what's it have to do with this position? Understand that the article needs sources which state "because of his experience... Ahern is a likely candidate."  There are sources that say this, but the section would need to be written differently.  What the anonymous IP address has tried to do is what I would consider advertising, which is not what this article should be about. Personal, I would love to support a fellow Irishman, but lets not let this article devolve into the taking of any political sides.--Patrick Ѻ 18:07, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bertie Ahern 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Consilium logo.svg

message: Should the supposed details of the future presidency be removed from the infobox per WP:CRYSTAL until such time as the Treaty of Lisbon comes into effect (or is at least ratified by all members)? In the text, it is possible to explain that we are talking about the Treaty of Lisbon, but the infobox gives the wrong impression.--Boson (talk) 06:36, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date and term length in infobox 

message: Van Rompuy has served as Belgium's premier for less than a year but has earned a reputation as a consensus-builder. He emphasized that quality in his acceptance speech tonight. This looks like a news article. Was it copied from somewhere? It certainly doesn't look encyclopedic. --CodeGeneratR (talk) 07:01, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not find this instance any more - seems to be fixed. Tomeasy T C 09:45, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Copied text?

message: Only one person. Don't you think it looks a bit pathetic to start a list already?- J.Logan`t: 10:12, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely. Tomeasy T C 09:44, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  List 

message: Anyone knows how the permanent president is going to work with the rotation presidency? Are they going to be merged together or will have 2 different roles? Maybe some lines to clarify this will help!--Melitikus (talk) 11:57, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: One presidency presides the Council of the European Union (also called Council of Ministers), while the other one presides the European Council. Did this help? Tomeasy T C 12:40, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

text: Whatever. You got it right. Tomeasy T C 18:14, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Permanent Vs Rotation Presidency 

message: Source for budgeted 2010 expenditure for the Office of the President (which includes, but does not separate out, the salary of the President) is here:
*AMENDING LETTER No 3 TO THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT BUDGET 2010 - STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE BY SECTION - Section II - Council 
Maybe somebody with more time than me can fit it into the article. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 01:37, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source 

message: Under "Duties and powers", the first paragraph reads: "The presidency set agenda of the meetings, a competence that was misused to push national interests."
Aside from being grammatically questionable, it doesn't seem to be NPOV. The sources appear to be simple descriptions of the office of president and don't seem to support the claim that the powers of the presidency pre-2009 were regularly abused for national self-interest. This sentence seem fishy to anyone else?
AngryHatter (talk) 16:48, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed!! — Blue-Haired Lawyer t 17:45, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weasel words/bias? 

message: This article urgently need updating, now that there is a new President in place. 62.60.23.66 (talk) 11:07, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  URGENT need for updating! 

message: Those who are determined to eliminate national democracy, also known as EU-supporters, deliberately and wrongly refer to this job as "president of the European Union" in order to try and legitimize the undemocratic EU and its unelected politicians. It should mention in paragraph one that this is basically a confidence trick in line with referring to the undemocratic EU as "Europe".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.132.21.52 (talk) 15:10, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias in reporting