“I should occupy this job because 27 heads of government invited me to. I may not be your choice, but I am theirs.”

Catherine Ashton
(to British conservative parliamentarian Charles Tannock)
EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
EU’s new top diplomat denies inexperience at first hearing

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