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European leaders don football boots for charity

Seven European prime ministers and one EU commissioner are set to play in a charity football match at the Budocentre sports complex in Vienna at 16:00 local time on 11 May.

The list includes: Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schussel; Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan; Polish leader Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz; Slovenia's Janez Jansa; Croatia's Ivo Sanader; Romania's Calin Tariceanu and Bulgaria's Sergei Stanishev.

EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn and European Commission presid...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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Author Bio

Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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