Leaders will meet in August to decide Catherine Ashton’s successor, with Federica Mogherini one potential candidateEuropean Union leaders failed to agree on who should get the prestigious job as the 28-nation bloc’s new foreign policy chief to succeed Catherine Ashton, who also chairs the international negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program.Summit chairman Herman Van Rompuy said on early Thursday the time was not yet ripe for a decision, and leaders will reconvene for another summit in Brussels to agree on their candidates late next month. … …read more
Source: The Guardian