Ireland’s EU Commissioner Phil Hogan has confirmed his candidacy to be the next head of the World Trade Organisation.
And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint…
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ:
Speaking in Brussels Mr Hogan said: “I’m exploring the option of being a candidate for the director general of the WTO [World Trade Organisation]
“I think there’s an important amount of work to be done to reform the organisation, to make it more effective and efficient, but also to deal with many of the important trade issues that are bedevilling the international community now arising from Covid-19,” he said.
Phil Hogan confirms candidacy to be next head of WTO (RTE)
EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan confirms he is considering putting his name forward as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, meaning the incoming Irish government could find itself with a key European vacancy to fill just as the cabinet jobs are being handed out
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) June 9, 2020
Meanwhile….
The European Commission has been urged not to soften its stance on EU rules that would outlaw the export of cyber surveillance tools to despotic regimes worldwide, amid ongoing negotiations between the European Council and Parliament on the new measures.
A coalition of EU human rights organisations have penned a letter to European Commissioner for Trade Phil Hogan, imploring him not to backtrack on the Commission’s original position on the regulation on dual-use goods, which aims to clamp down on exports that can be used in the surveillance of citizens in countries with less than democratic regimes.
Commission urged not to backtrack on EU spyware rules (Euractiv.com)
Pic via Politik
Hogan is a blow hard bull excrement-er
clearly tact and negotiating skills not required if waterboy gets the gig
This guy is no Peter Sutherland.
It’s like a metaphor for falling standards over a quarter of a century..
WTFO
+1
I laughed out loud at that :-)
Hehehehehe
A smartphone external screen, external keyboard, IBM Thinkpad, video call… soooo happening. So digital transformation. eGovernment…
Yet Hogan’s desk is strewn with paper, pencil, files, ye olde phone…
And what is he listening to the audio on – a hearing aid or something?
that would be the interpreter system
The “wireless”
This clowns overestimation of his own abilities knows no bounds.
https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/nationwides-soft-loan-to-hogan-26873373.html
Not forgetting that Noonan excluded loans up to €10m in the investigation into NAMA. Handy for the boys.
Just look how far being a thick blueshirt thug can get ya
FFS
why do think he is ‘thick’, or a ‘thug’?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Hogan#Controversies
The locals in KK call him a tick and a tug
This should be good. You’re a gas man Rob.
…it’s the tyrannical regimes that already have the surveillance tools…ask Angela Merkal who tapped her phone…
Is that Broadsheet on the Telly he’s watching?
As a mediocre white guy, he seems pretty mediocre too.
i think it’s pretty cool that the tans would have to deal with the phildogg when they leave without a deal in 6 months time.
Gavin Reilly is weeks behind the times. This was reported ages ago.
I love your comment below the caption . Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life ” the mint was the final thing served to the glutton before he explodedly burst from over eating . You are a deep one, Bodger