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Sat 11 Nov 2009EU fails to think big with two such low-profile appointments
ANALYSIS:The EU has taken its great leap forward – by appointing to two key Lisbon Treaty positions two figures who are virtually unknown...
THE EXTRAORDINARY ascent of Belgian prime minister Herman Van Rompuy and Britain’s commissioner Catherine Ashton to two of the most prestigious posts in the EU smacks of retrenched ambition for the bloc. Days before the Lisbon Treaty comes into force after years of institutional introspection, EU leaders have handed the task of advancing the revamp to two figures of little renown.
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