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	Chris Patten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patten was a Member of Parliament from 1979 to 1992, serving as Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1986 to 1989.
		The legislative council which was elected under Patten's governorship was dissolved upon the handover of Hong Kong to the PRC and replaced by a Provisional Legislative Council which functioned until elections were held under the previous rules in 1998.
		Patten was raised to the peerage in 2005 as Lord Patten of Barnes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chris_Patten (1239 words)

	RTE News - Chris Patten describes press leaks as "straightforward fabrications"
		Chris Patten, whose report into policing in the North is to be published next Thursday, has described press leaks as straightforward fabrications.
		Patten said that it was part of an effort to distract from the real content of the report and to "muddy the waters".
		Patten said that police reform was an essential part of new democratic society in Northern Ireland and that he hoped his report would be the focus of great interest and rational debate.
	www.rte.ie /news/1999/0902/patten.html (272 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		Chris Patten was appointed the last Governor of Hong Kong following the loss of his Bath parliamentary seat in the 1992 election.
		Chris Patten has said his mother "would have regarded talking about politics or religion as slightly indecent" and he took no part in politics at university.
		Chris Patten is a close friend of the former Prime Minister John Major and following the loss of his parliamentary seat he was seen as the ideal candidate to oversee the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/hk/patten.shtml (719 words)

	ABC Radio National - Background Briefing: 20 November 2005 - Chris Patten
		Chris Patten is most well-known here as the last Governor of Hong Kong, and he’s spent his whole life in politics and international relations.
		Chris Patten: I came for the first time as Britain’s last colonial oppressor, not least because it was here that the very best translation of the Confucian Analects was made.
		Chris Patten: Another reminder of the fact that China can be extremely difficult, and when you look at all the investment flooding into China, you see that the return on it is only about the same as is received from the much smaller quantities of investment in South Korea and Taiwan, or in Mexico.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/bbing/stories/s1508160.htm (4933 words)

	Chris Patten, Not Quite the Diplomat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chris Patten, Not Quite the Diplomat is a book by Chris Patten, published by Allen Lane in September 2005.
		Patten was the last Governor of Hong Kong and afterwards became Europe's Commissioner for External Relations.
		In the book, he attempts to provide insights into the world of diplomacy and discusses the position of a unified Europe in relation to the United States and emerging powers such as India and China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chris_Patten,_Not_Quite_the_Diplomat (134 words)

	CAIN: Issue: Policing: Article by Chris Patten on the Policing Bill and the Patten Report (Tuesday 28 November 2000)
		However, much has been said or written about the "spirit of Patten" or "what Patten intended" and it is hard to take too much of that when it is either misleadingly selective or just plain wrong - and that is my business.
		The "spirit of Patten" is that everyone should put the politics of policing behind them and get on with building the new beginning for depoliticised policing.
		Chris Patten is the European Union Commissioner for External Relations.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/police/patten/cp281100.htm (1053 words)

	The Observer \| Politics \| 'No' vote will force Britain out of EU, says Patten
		Patten, a British commissioner to the EU and respected across the continent for his pro-European views, said that a rejection of the constitution would make the Government's position on Europe untenable.
		Patten's comments are known to hold much sway within Downing Street: he was appointed by Blair in 1999 and talks regularly to the Prime Minister.
		Patten, who said he will campaign for a yes vote even though he viewed referendums as the instrument of 'Hitler and Mussolini', said that there was scaremongering about the constitution.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,6903,1202738,00.html (886 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Less Tory than Tony
		Chris Patten has just had shoulder surgery, is in a lot of pain and has hardly slept a wink, but he is nothing if not a trouper.
		Patten's rise had been meteoric: he joined the Conservative research department in 1966 at the absurdly tender age of 22, was its director from 1974-79, became an MP in 1979, a minister in 1983, environment secretary in 1989 and party chairman in 1990.
		Patten is damning about the present Conservative leader's opportunism, not least over the financing of higher education.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /interviews/story/0,11660,1535651,00.html (1822 words)

	MemeFirst: Chris Patten, anti-Semite?
		It would seem that Patten, that brilliant and subtle Englishman, is an anti-Semite, who uses codewords like "chutzpah" to rhetorically bolster his case, which is based on the belief that Jews are clever manipulators intent on subverting the American national interest.
		Patten was ennobled after his political career had finished, so it is quite wrong to see him as an aristocrat; attendance at Balliol even in his day did not imply automatic recruitment into "the great and the good".
		Patten is a catholic, I don't know of what vintage, nor is it true that many British catholics are anti-Semitic by definition.
	www.memefirst.com /001366.html (667 words)

	Chris Patten - The London Speaker Bureau
		Chris Patten was elected as Member of Parliament for Bath from May 1979 until April 1992.
		Following the General Election of June 1983, Mr Patten was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office and in September 1985 Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science.
		Chris Patten was appointed Governor of Hong Kong in April 1992, and was there from July 1992 until the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
	www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk /speakers/viewSpeaker.aspx?speakerid=193 (328 words)

	What's New?
		Patten will be received by President Bashar al Assad, and will have meetings with the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister and the Minister of Economy and Trade.
		Patten’s visit will be on the bilateral EU-Syria relationship and the ways to strengthen it.
		Patten will listen to the views of the Syrian government on how to conduct the process of economic modernisation and institutional reforms in Syria, and the ways in which, as a foreign partner, the European Union can best support it.
	www.delsyr.cec.eu.int /en/whatsnew/detail.asp?id=19 (435 words)

	The Hindu : Democracy not unsuitable to Arab world, says Chris Patten
		The European Union Commissioner for External Relations, Chris Patten, said today that it was important to "try to develop better governments in the Middle Eastern countries." But this cannot be done by "precision-guided munitions." The process had to be built from the grassroots.
		Patten said that it would be interesting to watch the manner in which Turkey's application to the E.U. was handled and was of the view that Turkey should be encouraged and helped.
		Patten to consider the university for research programmes that the European Union might wish to undertake.Earlier, Mr.
	www.hindu.com /2003/11/28/stories/2003112803631300.htm (658 words)

	Chris Patten CV at PFD
		Lord Patten was appointed Governor of Hong Kong in April 1992, a position he held until 1997, overseeing the return of Hong Kong to China.
		Unlike his immediate predecessors as governor, Chris Patten was not a career diplomat but an established politician, Chairman of the Conservative Party which had won the General Election of 1992 against all the odds, and a close friend of the Prime Minister.
		Patten found that the experience of Hong Kong allowed him to reflect - and change his views - on one of the most important questions which face all modern politicians.
	www.pfd.co.uk /clients/pattenc/b-aut.html (1167 words)

	On the Eternal Relevance of the UN by Chris Patten - The Globalist > > Global Security
		Chris Patten's argument is dishonest, dishonorable and -- if he actually recalls the events of Kosovo a decade ago -- deliberately distortive of history.
		Patten's blithe dismissal of "self defense" as a legitimate rationale for national action.
		Patten came down on the Falklands/Malvinas conflict.) And let's even put aside the fact that NATO has acted -- and, in the Ivory Coast, even France has acted -- militarily with absolutely no approval from the UN.
	www.theglobalist.com /dbweb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3006 (1300 words)

	Chris Patten to lead RUC review
		CHRIS Patten, the former Tory chairman and Governor of Hong Kong, has been chosen by Tony Blair to head the independent body looking into reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
		The news that Mr Patten has been chosen to head the commission will be greeted with mixed feelings on both sides of the political divide in the province, but will be seen by MPs at Westminster as a politically astute move by Mr Blair.
		Mr Patten was abroad yesterday and unavailable for comment, but senior Government sources confirmed that he had been asked to take the post and that he was understood to have accepted it.
	telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/04/28/nuls28.html (666 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Profile: Chris Patten
		The former governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, is to be made a Lord after stepping down as a European Commissioner.
		Mr Patten was appointed parliamentary under-secretary for Northern Ireland in 1983, before moving to the Department of Education.
		Mr Patten has criticised what he considers the endemic waste and fraud of the European Union's foreign aid programmes and the slowness of Brussels bureaucracy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3965499.stm (766 words)

	Dhimmi Watch: Fitzgerald: A tribute to Chris Patten
		Chris Patten is an awful man. His pronouncements on the world, and especially on Islam and the Middle East, need to be displayed, laid out for all to see, and ridiculed for what they reveal about his understanding of men and events.
		And now Chris Patten is attempting in his criminally negligent way to force Turkey, and 80 million Muslims, down the throat of Europe.
		The distrust of the EU and its bureaucrats, of which Patten was a prime example (and his views were fixed in that role), has become a dislike of the very idea of the European Community -- and rightly.
	www.jihadwatch.org /dhimmiwatch/archives/2005/10/008562print.html (1212 words)

	The Chris Patten Archive - Articles
		Chris Patten recounts his experiences and thoughts from a recent trip to Morocco.
		Chris Patten coming to woo students to Oxford, The Hindu, 15 February 2006.
		Patten criticised in uni row, The Journal, 5 November 2004.
	www.chrispatten.org.uk /articles.htm (675 words)

	CNN.com - EU threat to Iraq reconstruction - Mar. 12, 2003
		Chris Patten, EU commissioner for external relations, warned on Wednesday that without proper authority the EU might find it difficult to release cash from its external relations budget.
		Patten told the EU parliament in Strasbourg: "It will be very difficult in any circumstances to launch massive new programs in Iraq and in the neighborhood of Iraq.
		Patten also challenged U.S. President George W. Bush's argument that a war to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein would combat terrorism and spread democracy in the Middle East.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/03/12/sprj.irq.eu.patten (609 words)

	The Chris Patten Archive - Links
		Chris Patten is a Honourary Fellow of the College.
		Chris Patten is the chairman of this NGO, which works in the area of conflict prevention.
		Chris Patten was the chairman of this Commission between 1998-1999.
	www.chrispatten.org.uk /links.htm (149 words)

	Alan's Journal: Who is Chris Patten? A Reimagining of Conservatism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I've just read Chris Patten's "Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain, and Europe in a New Century." Chris Patten was the last British Governor of Hong Kong and from 1999 to 2004 was the European Commissioner for External Relations.
		Patten isn't impressed with Dick Cheney's connection to Halliburton.
		Chris Patten is an interesting Catholic and Conservative, and his book is a "must" read for anyone looking for a new model of world politics.
	www.gracecathedral.org /alansjournal/blog3.shtml (547 words)

	Jewish Indianapolis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chris Patten, the EU’s Commissioner for External Affairs, refused to accept the legitimacy of the documents presented to him.
		Chris Patten, by deliberately stonewalling any meaningful inquiry into the use of EU funds to commit genocide and terror, was an active accomplice in these acts.
		It is time for all the victims of the terrorists acts, (after Chris Patten was presented with the evidence and before he did anything about it), to sue him for every Euro he ever made.
	www.jewishindy.com /article.php?sid=3139 (882 words)

	INDOlink - International News - EU Not Considering Sanctions Against Iran: Chris Patten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Patten, however, said the EU has questions over the Iranian government’s commitment to democracy after the elections.
		Patten noted that the talks launched in 2002 on improving trade and other ties were umbilically linked to human rights, democracy and political issues, and in particular the nuclear question.
		Patten urged Iran to pursue a serious course of democratisation, as well as safeguard civil liberties, meet international concerns about nuclear weapons and work as a constructive partner and neighbour.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=022604100137 (270 words)

	ANU - DISCOVER ANU - CHRIS PATTEN
		In this lecture, Lord Patten will consider some of the big questions from recent history, tracing the three-way relationship between Britain, Europe and the US, the ways in which it has evolved since the First World War, and how it should adapt to cope with 21st Century challenges.
		Chris Patten was elevated to the House of Lords in January 2005 and became the Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes.
		Until 2004, Lord Patten was the Commissioner for External Relations in the European Commission.
	info.anu.edu.au /Discover_ANU/_Chris_Patten.asp?p=1 (296 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Governor: Chris Patten & the Handover of Hong Kong: Books: Jonathan Dimbleby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Appointed governor of Hong Kong in 1992, Chris Patten was to prepare the prosperous colony for Communist Chinese rule, a reversal of the independence normally associated with the end of colonialism, in 1997.
		Patten was a politican and he tried to work and fight for the benefits on behalf of HIS constituents i.e.
		While Dimbleby does downgrade Patten for underestimating the challenges he was to face as Governor, Dimbleby's portrayal of Patten as the lonely David fighting against the multi-headed Goliath seems to diminish the numerous allies Patten needed to help him accomplish the limited reforms he was able to enact.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0751522724?v=glance (1977 words)

	Foreign Correspondent - 18/04/2001: Interview with Chris Patten
		Chris Patten is a politician, an author, presenter of a television programme about well-known cooking writer Elizabeth David and former Chairman of the British Conservative Party.
		Patten: Well, we already accept that with NATO, and what we're talking with the rapid reaction force is to have the capacity to act where NATO as a whole doesn't want to do so in peace-keeping operations.
		Patten: But I think you've just described what is the, I reckon, the biggest problem in global governments at the moment.
	www.abc.net.au /foreign/stories/s282409.htm (1194 words)

	ZA@Play - Books: Part of the Patten 23/02/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Patten, of course, is right about the need to democratise Hong Kong, but the British case, rightly or wrongly, has always been tainted by hypocrisy: under British rule democracy was unnecessary, under the Chinese it became essential.
		The result is that Patten confuses his political argument - on which he is right - with the specifics of these societies, born of histories that are very different from Britain’s (and often from each other).
		One can sympathise with Patten for the calumny that the Chinese government heaped on his head, but he has allowed his anger and disappointment to get the better of a cool, dispassionate analysis.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /mg/books/9902/990223-patten.html (522 words)

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