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EU needs more than star power: Belgian PM

LONDON: The ideal appointment for the European Union presidency, it has been suggested, should be ''someone who could stop the traffic in Beijing'' - the implication being that Tony Blair has enough star power to do that. Full Article at Sydney Morning Herald

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