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Foreign Minister post causes rifts

The Constitution’s biggest innovation – the creation of the post of EU foreign minister – is causing the latest round of headaches in the intergovernmental talks to finalise the draft text.

"The foreign minister position is raising as many questions as it answers", said a diplomat at the meeting of EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday.

The UK is the country expressing the most profound reservations. At a tour-de-table on sensitive institutional issues in the Constitution, Jack Straw...

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