The European Union is calling a special summit on Nov. 19 to choose the bloc's first president, a foreign policy chief and secretary general, the Swedish government said. "It is hoped that at the summit, agreement can be reached on the appointment of the three new EU posts regulated in the Treaty of Lisbon," said a statement on the Web site of the Swedish EU presidency. The statement didn't name any candidates for the posts to be discussed at the summit in Brussels. "There are quite a few names," Roberta Alenius, a Swedish government spokeswoman said in an interview. "There's no self- evident consensus around one name." She said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, will hold a second round of consultations with the 27-nation bloc's leaders on filling the posts before the summit.
The European Union is calling a special summit on Nov. 19 to choose the bloc's first president, a foreign policy chief and secretary general, the Swedish government said.
"It is hoped that at the summit, agreement can be reached on the appointment of the three new EU posts regulated in the Treaty of Lisbon," said a statement on the Web site of the Swedish EU presidency. The statement didn't name any candidates for the posts to be discussed at the summit in Brussels.
"There are quite a few names," Roberta Alenius, a Swedish government spokeswoman said in an interview. "There's no self- evident consensus around one name." She said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, will hold a second round of consultations with the 27-nation bloc's leaders on filling the posts before the summit.
Ideally we'd send some photogenic people to Brussels to hand in the list to someone appropriate. Don't know if that's possible.
