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Mr Blair - president of the EU council in the future? (Photo: The Council of the European Union)

Sarkozy seen as backing Blair for top EU job

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair will attend a conference of French president Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right party UMP on Saturday (12 January), in what is said to be his first intervention for a party other than his own.

The move is fuelling speculation that Mr Blair, who belongs to the UK's center-left Labour party, is in the running for EU president – a new high-profile job that can be held for up to five years starting in 2009.

The two men will debate Europe and Mr Blair ma...

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Mr Blair - president of the EU council in the future? (Photo: The Council of the European Union)

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