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The selection of Herman van Rompuy as President of the European Union's Council of Ministers, and of Lady Catherine Ashton as the EU's foreign policy chief, underlines the extent to which member states are in the driver's seat in the EU. They manage its institutions in their own interest. The EU is no super-state striding bravely into a bright new dawn.

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