So it looks like the UK and its allies have successfully blocked Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt from winning the presidency of the EU Commission. Does anyone have any insights into who will succeed Romano Prodi? From what I've read it look like the prime minister of Luxembourg can have the job (even though 2 of the last 4 commission presidents have been from tiny Luxembourg), but that he doesn't want it. So if he holds to that opinion, who will rise instead? At the moment I'd guess Portugal's Antonio Vitorino, though who knows, maybe this could be how Joschka Fischer ends his days in politics.
Posted by armand at June 18, 2004 02:06 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics