The body language in EU politics

Posted on | December 6, 2011 | 1 Comment

At the EU summit October 23 Herman Van Rompuy and José Manuel Barosso was rather loose and relaxed, when they met the press after hours of talk in the council. They were there to tell the press that they could not present a comprehensive package, but they were in good mood before they were to hold another EU summit just two days after.

I remember a quit absurd scene, when Herman Van Rompuy tried to make some jokes with the journalists, but it didn’t really work. I personally concluded that they tried to look pretty confident after the meeting to send a signal to the markets.

Today the british BBC have tried to make a more in depth analysis of two European leaders and their body language. Among other things they describe how the greetings between Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel yesterday went all wrong in a culture clash.

I’ll promise to look after the body language as well as the spoken language, when I’ll be at the next summit thursday and friday.

Category: EUgonzo

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One Response to “The body language in EU politics”

  1. AJ
    January 4th, 2012 @ 4:53 am

    Any follow up from the meetings ?
    Body of Language and spoken language ?

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