Heads of the Beast system?

[Christina]

BARROSO AND SARKOZY PLEAD FOR PERMANENT EU PRESIDENCYOctober 17, 2008The EU Observer reports: European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and French President Nicolas Sarkozy - currently chairing the EU - have urged the need for a permanent EU presidency to replace the rotating system.We need a president of the Council [the institution representing EU member states] that does not change every six months, Mr. Barroso told journalists at the end of an EU leaders' meeting in Brussels on Thursday (16 October).To lead [EU] member states, we need a very strong presidency.The EU's Lisbon treaty - rejected by Ireland in June but already ratified by 22 EU states - puts forward a permanent head of the council as one of its key reforms.Relations between Mr. Barroso and Mr. Sarkozy have warmed in the last months, with the French president referring to Mr. Barroso by his first name, Jose Manuel, during Thursday's post-summit press conference and with the commission president even proposing the French leader fill the post.I do not know whether we are in condition to propose to president Sarkozy to be president of the European Council - I think he does not want it after his experience in the last months Mr. Barroso said referring to the Russia-Georgia conflict and the financial crisis, which the French president has had to tackle.In any case, me, I would vote in favour, of course, Mr. Barroso added, smiling.Mr. Sarkozy stressed that the current situation of the EU presidency rotating from country to country every six months must change, so that tough dossiers do not keep being passed around--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Is this the start of the Heads of the Beast system of Rev?