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Search to fill EU top jobs hits snags
By Tony Barber in Brussels and George Parker in London

Published: November 16 2009 21:08 | Last updated: November 16 2009 21:08

The European Union is struggling to avoid the embarrassment of lacking agreed nominees for the posts of president and foreign policy supremo at a summit on Thursday in which the winning candidates are supposed to be announced.

An absence of consensus by Monday on who should be appointed to the foreign policy job was preventing Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium’s prime minister, from consolidating his position as favourite to become the first full-time EU president.



The European Commission offices in Brussels. The new EU president and foreign policy supremo are expected to be chosen this week



According to several EU government ministers and diplomats, the hunt for a foreign policy candidate of the right political and geographical profile has proved harder than rallying support for Mr Van Rompuy.

There is even a small risk that Sweden, holder of the EU’s rotating presidency, will not have found an answer by the time it opens Thursday’s summit – although EU officials say Stockholm’s firm goal is to strike a deal beforehand.

“Van Rompuy is the guy the Swedes want to put into the job. There’s no question about that. To do that, they are positioning him as the leading candidate,” said one British official.

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Massimo D’Alema, a former Italian premier, is the preferred candidate of Europe’s socialist parties, but some east European nations regard his communist past as a problem.

In Europa, specie all'EST, non gradiscono i comunisti. E con D'Alema in giro per l'Italia.....si fa dura per Bersani



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MILANO (MF-DJ)--Federbanchi, Federazione Banchi Metalli Preziosi, comunica le quotazioni dei principali metalli preziosi, rilevate sulla piazza di Milano e basate sui fixing di Londra, convertite in euro al momento delle fissazioni e comprensive di costi e margine:

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Palladio p.m. 368,00 1,4900 8,338
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Argento p.m. 18,1000 1,4900 410,09 Com/ds
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