Special summit on top EU appointments

The EU`s Lisbon Treaty will kick into place on the first of December 2009. So next month, among other things, the new person working as the President of the European Council President will start as well as a new-style High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

So, because the Lisbon Treaty wasn´t official in place at the last Summit two weeks ago, an informal working dinner took place tonight with all the European Leaders. I got a glimpse of Brian Cowen and Zapatero on their way in but didn't stay longer to see Merkel, Sarkozy and co.

The event was expected to go on all night but it's not even eleven now and all the European leaders have gone back to their hotels while journalists are still working away!

Maybe we should just go home already though as the new appointments have been announced and there are already 1,568 news items on google! So it wasnt that 'informal', was it?!

Carnival in Köln

The other day, I was passing through Köln Hauptbahnhof at about 10.30am in the morning. I only had about 20 minutes before my next train left but instead of having a coffee, I took some shots of the merry 'Fasching' goers...The sky was black and I was tired but the whole place was rockin´so I was in a good mood within minutes!