New names emerge for top EU jobs-by Andrew Rettman
Former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer should run the European Commission according to MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit, while British ex-commissioner Chris Patten is eyeing an EU foreign minister role. "A European mandate would not be the worst thing for Joschka," Mr Cohn-Bendit told the Frankfurt Journal magazine on Tuesday (4 August). The two politicians know each other since the 1970s, when both took part in street protests for the radical left before later joining the Green party. Mr Cohn-Bendit opposes the re-appointment of centre-right Portuguese politician Jose-Manuel Barroso as commission chief on grounds that he has tried to sideline the European Parliament.
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt, former Finnish prime minister Paavo Lipponen, Finnish EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn and Dutch former Nato chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer have been named as potential EU foreign relations chiefs.
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