Posted on 03/05/2011 5:45:38 PM PST by bruinbirdman
"It is perfectly normal for the centre-left Party of European Socialists, which claims just six heads of state and government at the moment in Europe, and the centre-right European People's Party, which has 14, to gather ahead of EU summits in Brussels. But these are normally low-key affairs that last a few hours and take place on the same day as the European Council relatively close to the EU quarter."
"It's Athens in the red corner versus Helsinki in the blue corner, as Europe's two great families of ideological pugilists ready themselves for a pair of 'locker-room strategy sessions' at opposite sides of the continent ahead of the most important European summit since the economic crisis hit.", writes Euobserver.
On the 4 March, the Party of European Socialists is gathering in Athens while its opposite number in the European Parliament, the European People’s Party (EPP) is meeting the same day in Helsinki.
The two political families are to hone their weaponry for the 11 March gathering of the Eurozone 17 in Brussels. "No ordinary summit, the meeting is to consider some of the most radical changes to both the economy and the structure of the union seen in the past generation," the Brussels based website notes.
“Helsinki versus Athens”
Helsinki: Get a F%$*#g job
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