Analysis: Blair was too big for Europe top job

Reported by CNN.com on Friday, 20 November 2009 (on November 20, 2009)

Faced with a choice for its new president between the traffic-stopping Tony Blair and a capable but little-known Belgian, the EU's 27 leaders settled on Herman Van Rompuy, a man who would scarcely stop two mothers with strollers outside his own country.

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