EU gives top jobs to Brit, Belgian
Posted: November 20, 2009 at 6:19 a.m.
The new European Union president, Herman Van Rompuy, (left), stands Thursday with the EU’s new foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in Brussels.
EU leaders Thursday handed the European Union’s top new jobs to two little-known, compromise figures — Belgium’s prime minister and the EU’s trade commissioner — dashing hopes of those who wanted to raise the continent’s global profile.
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