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...choice does not come down to mere merit - politics, geography and gender will also play a part. E.U. leaders will want to make sure that the three posts of E.U. president, foreign policy chief and European Commission president are split between candidates from the centre-left and centre-right parties, big and small member states, northern and southern Europe, and, if possible, include a woman. (Former Irish President Mary Robinson has emerged as a potential E.U. president candidate.) (See TIME's photos: "New Hope For Belfast...
...Lisbon Treaty has the potential to herald the emergence of a new world actor - a Europe that can look upwards and outwards and is equipped with the bureaucratic tools to do so," says Daniel Korski, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). But as the E.U. sets about implementing the Lisbon Treaty, Korski says the world must be patient while the new institutional infrastructure takes shape. "Butterflies are beautiful, in part because they take time to develop," he says...
...played cat-and-mouse with police, the government bused in supporters by the thousands for anti-American protests in front of the old embassy, now known as the "Den of Spies." They chanted the traditional "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" slogans. The government blamed the U.S. and European governments for fabricating the post-election unrest in an attempt to stage a coup d'état. Now the Iranian government is finding it more and more tempting to press the hot button of conflict with the West. (See a pictorial history of the legacy of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...fields. Johnson's career, both in journalism and in politics, has been marked by a fearlessness that not infrequently borders on the suicidally reckless. He rarely keeps to agreed party lines, recently incurring the wrath of Conservative leader David Cameron by going dramatically off-message on the party's European Union policy last month, provoking a Cameron aide to send him a Mafia-style text message: "La vendetta è un piatto che va mangiato freddo," or "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." Johnson, using the florid turn of phrase that is his hallmark, continues to insist his relationship with...
...should the Americans worry about the verdict being executed by other European governments. "I doubt that any country would step on the U.S.'s toes," says DiBenedetto. Berlusconi was also Prime Minister in 2003; neither he nor Romano Prodi, who was Prime Minister from 2006 to 2008, sought to extradite the CIA defendants. Berlusconi is unlikely to press for them to be put in prison...