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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>FT video: Relative unknowns take EU centre stage</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/ft-video-relative-unknowns-take-eu-centre-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FT</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Cathy Ashton: 10 things to know</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/cathy-ashton-10-things-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FT</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From the FT&#8217;s Westminster blog
Cathy Ashton is Europe&#8217;s new foreign policy supremo. Even friends are stunned that someone so low key could have been elevated to such a high profile job. To date she has served as EU trade commissioner, leader of the Lords, and as a junior justice and education minister. Here are 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Van Rompuy and Ashton: big enough for the big EU jobs?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/van-rompuy-and-ashton-big-enough-for-the-big-eu-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/van-rompuy-and-ashton-big-enough-for-the-big-eu-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Barber</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So it looks as if it is to be Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium&#8217;s prime minister, as the full-time president, and Catherine Ashton, Britain&#8217;s EU trade commissioner, as the foreign policy supremo.  This is the culmination of eight years of efforts, starting with the EU&#8217;s Laeken Declaration of 2001, to reform the bloc&#8217;s institutions and give the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Van Rompuy-Brit combination would signal EU disunity on Turkey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/van-rompuy-brit-combination-would-signal-eu-disunity-on-turkey/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/van-rompuy-brit-combination-would-signal-eu-disunity-on-turkey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Barber</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Miliband]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[European Council president]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Herman Van Rompuy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Claude Juncker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The sun is shining in Brussels and the sky has an unseasonably blue, cloudless, late-November-in-Rome quality as European Union leaders make their way here for the summit of summits - the event where they will choose the EU&#8217;s first full-time president and new foreign policy chief.  I wonder if the weather will be so fine when the leaders finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scarcity of women candidates for EU jobs signals trouble ahead</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/scarcity-of-women-candidates-for-eu-jobs-signals-trouble-ahead/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/scarcity-of-women-candidates-for-eu-jobs-signals-trouble-ahead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Barber</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Commission]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Philippe Ricard wrote a fine piece in Monday&#8217;s Le Monde about the scarcity of women candidates for top positions in the European Union - not just the first full-time president and the new foreign policy high representative, but the next 27-member European Commission.
He made the point that if only a few women are nominated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FT video: Christine Lagarde</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/ft-video-christine-lagarde/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/ft-video-christine-lagarde/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FT</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Financial crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The winner of this year&#8217;s FT ranking of European finance ministers, France&#8217;s Christine Lagarde, talks about tackling the economic crisis.
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		<title>Further reading: Brussels</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/further-reading-brussels-19/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/further-reading-brussels-19/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanley Pignal</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>

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UK needs different &#8216;top job&#8217; in Brussels (William Hague, FT)
EU pressed to appoint more women to top jobs (Stanley Pignal, FT)
EU top job search is too narrow (FT editorial)
Investigating Iceland&#8217;s financiers (Stanley Pignal, FT magazine)
Single market bargaining (Charlemagne, The Economist)
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		<title>Massimo D&#8217;Alema: Pair of Safe Hands, or Disaster in the Making?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/massimo-dalema-pair-of-safe-hands-or-disaster-in-the-making/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/massimo-dalema-pair-of-safe-hands-or-disaster-in-the-making/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Barber</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[David Miliband]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Massimo D'Alema]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I confess to a certain surprise at the way that Massimo D&#8217;Alema is climbing up the list of candidates for the post of European Union foreign policy chief.  At first sight the former Italian prime minister and foreign minister ticks far too few boxes to get the job.  But there are, in truth, some straightforward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FT video: Spain ready for recovery</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/ft-video-spain-ready-for-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/ft-video-spain-ready-for-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FT</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Watch the Bank of Spain&#8217;s governor discuss the need to reform the labour market 
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		<title>The pace picks up on EU enlargement into the Balkans</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/the-pace-picks-up-on-eu-enlargement-into-the-balkans/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/11/the-pace-picks-up-on-eu-enlargement-into-the-balkans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Barber</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Albania]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Croatia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Commission]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iceland]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Olli Rehn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Enlargement of the European Union is, almost imperceptibly, moving forward once more.  EU foreign ministers are expected next week to forward Albania&#8217;s membership application to the European Commission for an opinion.  This is a necessary technical step on the path to entry - small, but important.
The Commission is already preparing opinions on the applications of Iceland and Montenegro.  [...]]]></description>
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