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Thu 11 Nov 2009EU presidency race to intensify at Berlin event
THE RACE for the first presidency of the European Council is intensifying ahead of an informal gathering of EU leaders at celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Although Belgian prime minister Herman Van Rompuy is emerging as a leading compromise candidate for the newly created post, Britain continues to promote former prime minister Tony Blair in the face of resistance from his own political family.
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