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"Unofficial race is on for EU’s top posts
AFP/Brussels, Belgium
Ireland’s Yes vote for the EU reform treaty has intensified the unofficial race for the European Union’s new top jobs, including a figurehead president.
The Czech Republic and Poland still have to ratify the Lisbon Treaty before European leaders can name anyone president of the EU council and a new foreign affairs supremo.
Top EU figures would like the posts decided at the next EU summit this month and lobbying is already underway. Former British prime minister Tony Blair is the early favourite to become the first EU president.
The centre-left politician has support from London and Paris. He suffers from his close ties to former US president George W Bush in launching the Iraq war in 2003."
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