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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 3:55 pm ET
EU leaders chose Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy Thursday as the European Union's first president, diplomats said, after Britain dropped its backing for Tony Blair.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 4:24 pm ET
European leaders chose Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as the European Union's first president on Thursday, the EU presidency announced, after Britain dropped its backing for Tony Blair.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 1:27 pm ET
Seven socialist prime ministers backed the European Union's trade commissioner to be its new foreign policy chief, moving a Thursday summit closer to breaking a stalemate over two freshly created top EU jobs.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 1:22 pm ET
Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy was on course on Thursday to become the European Union's president and Briton Catherine Ashton to become its foreign affairs chief, EU officials said.
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Bloomberg - Sat Nov 21, 6:23 am ET
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Belgium’s King Albert II sounded out party leaders as the country, torn by tensions between Dutch and French speakers, seeks a new prime minister following Herman Van Rompuy’s appointment as the European Union’s first president.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 11:58 am ET
Centre-left European Union leaders want Britain's Catherine Ashton as the EU's new foreign policy chief, a participant in their meeting said Thursday.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Sat Nov 21, 9:39 am ET
Prosecutors request life in jail for US student on trial for killing British roommate in... European Union - Government - US - Multilateral - Politics
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Foreign Policy Blogs - Fri Nov 20, 3:33 pm ET
U.S. media are largely ignoring the European Union’s efforts to make a bigger splash on the world stage by selecting a new full-time president of the European Council, the group of EU leaders that holds regular summit meetings, and a new High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy – in effect a foreign minister, [...]
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UPI - Sat Nov 21, 1:14 am ET
ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The choice of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as European Union president means Turkey is less likely to be accepted, a Turkish leader says.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 1:31 pm ET
Herman Van Rompuy's appointment as the first European Union president provoked fears in Turkey that he might hinder Ankara's hopes of joining the bloc, with some media declaring outright that he is anti-Turkish.
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Nov 20, 11:14 am ET
Brussels - The European Union's new foreign policy supremo, Catherine Ashton of Britain, will assume office on December 1, earlier than had been anticipated, officials in Brussels said Friday. Ashton received the unanimous backing of the EU's 27 lead...
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Nov 20, 10:43 am ET
Istanbul - The appointment of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as president of the European Union was met with concern in Turkey because of the Belgian's previous comments against Ankara's joining the EU. The headlines of Turkey's major paper...
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Fox News - Thu Nov 19, 3:59 pm ET
EU leaders on 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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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 19, 3:20 pm ET
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy has been chosen as the European Union president and EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton has been nominated to be the EU’s top diplomat, an EU official told reporters in Brussels today.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 11:06 am ET
Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union's new president, may not be very well known around the world but he's already winning fans in Japan -- as a poet rather than a politician.
