Sex Bomb, Sex Bomb, EU’s Sex Bomb
@ 9:55 am First is was the school system, now it is the Prime Minister. The Guardian writes
He may dress like a bureaucrat – he wears boring two-piece suits, severe rectangular glasses and the straightest haircut in Christendom – but Vanhanen is a Finnish sex bomb.
I would have half-heartedly expected Chirac to introduce Vanhanen as “bad in bed” to Zapatero, but it seems now that if we’ve impressed Prodi with the food Chirac got to do something to avoid rotten eggs.
Which brings us back to Chirac. Speculation suggests that he made his flattering observation in an attempt to make up for his past gaffes against the Finns. Last year, he said Finland had the worst food in the world and, just last week, he was reported as describing the Finnish foreign minister as incompetent (a comment Chirac’s office denied). This week, when not describing Vanhanen as a stud, Chirac has been busy kissing the hand of the Finnish president, Tarja Halonen. But given the Finns’ propensity for the down-to-earth, it seems unlikely to get him anywhere. “Finns don’t like flashy personalities,” says one of the journalists. “Chirac would never be successful here”.
