European powers favour Dane for NATO post - by STEPHEN MAHER
The behind-the-scenes wrangling over the top political job at NATO leaked out into the open Tuesday, with both good news and bad news for Defence Minister Peter MacKay’s campaign for the job.The comments appeared to be an attempt to overturn conventional wisdom, which says that only a European can have the secretary general’s job, since an American is always supreme military commander, and a big part of the job is the kind of subtle diplomatic wrangling at which Europeans excel. In NATO’s 60 years, only Europeans have ever held the job.
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