The European Union will stumble through the summer without decisions on who will be its next foreign-policy chief and who will take other top posts, after the special European Council convened on 16 July to make these appointments broke down without agreement. The 28 prime ministers and presidents from the member states instead focused on the situation in Ukraine – evidence for the growing EU attention to foreign policy.
Had it not been for Ukraine, the initial plan hatched by Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, might well have worked out. Van Rompuy was working toward a package …read more
Source: European Voice
