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Jean-Claude Juncker may be asked to stay on (Photo: Council of European Union)

Eurozone horsetrading may leave Juncker in top job

Ongoing negotiations on who should chair eurozone finance ministers' meetings are seeking to strike a balance of posts among countries big and small, from the north and south - but may end up sticking with Jean-Claude Juncker.

Following the same well-worn Brussels path for negotiating top jobs, talks behind the scenes carried out by EU council chief Herman Van Rompuy take into account which posts countries already have or may hold in the future.

So the board seat in the European C...

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