New EU leaders greeted with delight, dismay
China Daily | Updated: 2009-11-23 07:51
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Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the EU rotating presidency, holds a Rubick's cube showing pictures of newly-appointed (left to right) EU President Herman van Rompuy of Belgium, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and newly-appointed EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton of Britain. Settling on a combination of center-right, center-left, big country, small country candidates for the two jobs consumed an extraordinary summit of EU leaders in Brussels last week. |
BRUSSELS: Incoming EU president Herman van Rompuy kept a low profile over the weekend as the 27-nation bloc's leaders faced flak for picking him and a little-known British peer to lead a revamped Europe on the world stage.
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