Tony Blair's ambition to become Europe's first president have been set back by stiffening opposition from Sweden and Spain, the two countries chairing the EU for the next year.
Senior officials in Stockholm, which assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the EU today, said they feared a President Blair would be a divisive figure, triggering friction between small and large European countries, and added that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, was even more strongly opposed to Blair securing the post and usurping Madrid's running of the union next year.
The decision to appoint a new sitting European president, for a maximum of five years, is to be taken before the end of the year if Ireland votes yes in October in a referendum on the Lisbon treaty streamlining the way the EU is run and also creating the new post.
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Whoever takes the chair of the full time EU presidency will be the Biblical Antichrist and we shall know him by his confirmation of a seven year Middle East peace treaty as per Daniel Chapter 9 , Verse 27. He comes forth as a middle eaast peace maker. Wherby Tony Blair is the head of the international quartet of four towards Middle East peace I have never heard of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero having anything whatsoever to do with Middle east peace. Accordingly I would still back Blair for the post particulary when the prophecies make it quite clear that "the Beast" will be of British descent. If you are interested, there is more on Tony Blair's bid for the EU presidency at my blog on robert-muir.blogspot.com
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