Fischer's bid for EU foreign affairs job in doubt

The crisis in Iraq has seriously damaged Joschka Fischer's chances to become the first EU foreign affairs minister, Financial Times Deutschland writes in an editorial today.

According to the newspaper, it is not a matter of whether Germany was "on the right front side" with its position over war in Iraq. The problem is that the German Foreign Affairs minister seemed unable to even decide what the position should be.

This should not be a feature of the future EU foreign affairs mi...