Why weren’t there three chairs, it was obviously done on purpose. Will misogany ever cease???
She should have …. But no…if she got mad they’d say it was pms. What would I have done? Hhhmmm? Probably canceled the meeting….they didn’t even stand up for a lady….they weren’t gentlemen…whatever agreements were made would not be worth the price of the ink.
All three of them are a waste of air. Michel is an incompetent hypocrite and a wimp, von der Leyen is a destructive hypocrite who has undermined Europe to profit Germany, and Erdo is the most dangerous of the three.
My mom was comptroller of a large east coast rental company. Someone showed up for a meeting and started with sweetheart, I’ll have a … Mom’s boss told the jerk he had to negotiate with her from now on (after mom explained the Bear and Buckwheat thing)
Even if Erdogan were to fill the Bosporus straight or the Dardanelles (not that russia would let him anyway), Turkey will never be a country in Europe! So, enjoy your dictatorship while it lasts and keep on dreamin’ about the EU, jerk…
According to MEP Sergey Lagodinsky (Greens, Germany), who spoke to EURACTIV, the EU leadership’s Ankara visit had become the latest example of bungled EU foreign policy efforts.
Turkey and the EU had blamed each other on Thursday (8 April) for seating arrangements that left European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen without a chair during a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan earlier this week.
A blame game followed between Brussels and Ankara, but also inside the EU institutions, over who messed up the diplomatic protocol and seating arrangements.
The scandal drew complaints from across Europe over what was seen as only the latest example of bungled EU foreign policy efforts.
Only last month, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell’s controversial visit to Moscow had raised eyebrows among EU diplomats and received heavy criticism after the EU’s chief diplomat became part of a show in which he was humiliated by his Russian hosts.
“Incidents like this have bad optics and this is something that also coincides with bad optics of the EU-Turkey relationship as a whole,” said Lagodinsky, who is a member of the European Parliament’s delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.
S&C = Dismayed&Depressed about 3 years ago
Why weren’t there three chairs, it was obviously done on purpose. Will misogany ever cease???
She should have …. But no…if she got mad they’d say it was pms. What would I have done? Hhhmmm? Probably canceled the meeting….they didn’t even stand up for a lady….they weren’t gentlemen…whatever agreements were made would not be worth the price of the ink.
GiantShetlandPony about 3 years ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
buer about 3 years ago
All three of them are a waste of air. Michel is an incompetent hypocrite and a wimp, von der Leyen is a destructive hypocrite who has undermined Europe to profit Germany, and Erdo is the most dangerous of the three.
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe about 3 years ago
My mom was comptroller of a large east coast rental company. Someone showed up for a meeting and started with sweetheart, I’ll have a … Mom’s boss told the jerk he had to negotiate with her from now on (after mom explained the Bear and Buckwheat thing)
onzerocs about 3 years ago
Even if Erdogan were to fill the Bosporus straight or the Dardanelles (not that russia would let him anyway), Turkey will never be a country in Europe! So, enjoy your dictatorship while it lasts and keep on dreamin’ about the EU, jerk…
briangj2 about 3 years ago
A repost"
Turkey blames EU in ‘sofagate’ diplomatic spat.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/europe/top-stories/turkey-blames-eu-in-sofagate-diplomatic-spat/ar-BB1fr6fN?pfr=1&c=6985534676634736561,2322522556105962218&mkt=en-us,en-us&ocid=uxbndlbing
According to MEP Sergey Lagodinsky (Greens, Germany), who spoke to EURACTIV, the EU leadership’s Ankara visit had become the latest example of bungled EU foreign policy efforts.
Turkey and the EU had blamed each other on Thursday (8 April) for seating arrangements that left European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen without a chair during a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan earlier this week.
A blame game followed between Brussels and Ankara, but also inside the EU institutions, over who messed up the diplomatic protocol and seating arrangements.
The scandal drew complaints from across Europe over what was seen as only the latest example of bungled EU foreign policy efforts.
Only last month, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell’s controversial visit to Moscow had raised eyebrows among EU diplomats and received heavy criticism after the EU’s chief diplomat became part of a show in which he was humiliated by his Russian hosts.
“Incidents like this have bad optics and this is something that also coincides with bad optics of the EU-Turkey relationship as a whole,” said Lagodinsky, who is a member of the European Parliament’s delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/protocol-scandal-symbolises-the-state-of-eu-turkey-relations-eu-lawmaker-says/