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Published 10/30/2009 by Straits Times

Modest EU president wanted

BRUSSELS - FORMER British premier Tony Blair's chances of becoming the first-ever EU president wilted on Friday, as Europe's leaders sought a lesser light to lead a new-look European Union, officials said.

At an EU summit, Spain added its no vote to those of the Benelux countries and Hungary, and a senior...

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...should go to "a convinced European, with a European vocation to strengthen the Union and all that is common about it"

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"The president Nicolas Sarkozy) has great admiration for Tony Blair but the fact that Britain is not in the euro zone, or in the Schengen zone, is hardly an asset" said an official close...

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