EU foreign ministers meeting today (17 May) in Brussels appear to have settled on an institutional solution that is as close as possible to the current situation on member states running the day-to-day affairs of the EU.\n \nFollowing much debate both while the draft EU Constitution was being drawn up and afterwards, governments seem to have decided it is easiest to stick with the system where one country runs the EU for a period of six months.
To be known now as 'team presidencies', th...
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