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Thu 11 Nov 2009Majority vote could be used to decide on EU jobs
SWEDISH PRIME minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has raised the prospect that he might not be able to achieve unanimity among deadlocked EU leaders over the choice of the bloc’s new foreign policy chief and the first president of the European Council.
Embarking on fresh efforts to forge consensus before a special dinner summit in Brussels next Thursday night, he said he might have to resort to a majority vote to settle the matter.
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