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Tue 11 Nov 2009Low-profile EU leaders reflect feeble global role
OPINION:The best that may come from the new appointments is more effective management of the union’s business, writes CHRIS PATTEN
THE SELECTION of Herman van Rompuy as president of the European Union’s council of ministers and of Lady Catherine Ashton as the EU’s foreign policy chief, surely underlines the extent to which member states are in the driver’s seat in the EU. They manage its institutions in their own interest. The EU is no superstate striding bravely into a bright new dawn.
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